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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The First Reich refers to what empire?
(a) The Holy Roman Empire.
(b) The Greek Empire.
(c) The Nazi Empire.
(d) The Egyptian Empire.

2. On what date did George Stout breathe “the first warm air of a British spring,” according to the author in the beginning of Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8?
(a) March 18, 1945.
(b) March 6, 1944.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) April 16, 1943.

3. Who was assigned to inspect monuments in Sicily on his own with no resources or assistance and once in Italy became buried by bureaucracy, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Lieutenant George Stout.
(d) Captain Mason Hammond.

4. When did the first of the Monuments Men arrive in Monte Cassino to inspect the damage there?
(a) March 18, 1945.
(b) July 17, 1944.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) May 27, 1944.

5. When did Captain Walker Hancock join George Stout on a mission to visit a repository that held Dutch masterpieces and an original Rembrandt and to arrange for the protection of the works?
(a) June 6, 1944.
(b) September 16, 1944.
(c) October 10, 1944.
(d) March 6, 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had issued an executive order stating that important artistic and historical sites were not to be bombed in one of his last acts before leaving Italy, prior to the bombing of the abbey at Monte Cassino?

2. During what years was Franklin D. Roosevelt in office as President of the U.S.?

3. Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 22 is titled “The Bulge” and takes place on the Western Front during what dates?

4. When was James Rorimer assigned to Paris, where he was to protect fifty-two official monuments, assist hundreds of Nazi looting victims, and track down many hundreds of missing public monuments?

5. On what date did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor and catapult the U.S. into World War II?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Rose Valland obtain the information that she passed along to Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer?

2. What did Captain Walter Hancock find in Aachen, Germany during his trip there in late November of 1944?

3. What mission did Captain Walker Hancock and Lieutenant George Stout undertake in October of 1944?

4. When did Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer arrive in Normandy? What was his mission there?

5. How is Harry Ettlinger’s arrival in Europe described in Part III: “Germany,” Chapter 24? When did he arrive?

6. Who comprised the group known as the Monuments Men? How does the author characterize these individuals in his introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?

7. Where were the central Monuments Men during the Battle of the Bulge? What work were they doing at this time?

8. What reinforcements arrived to assist the Monuments Men in late 1944? What were their roles?

9. Where was Hermann Göring’s art collection transported in March of 1945? Why?

10. How does the author describe the mission of Captain Mason Hammond in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 6?

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