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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. On what date was Harry Ettlinger’s nineteenth birthday?
(a) September 7, 1944.
(b) January 28, 1945.
(c) July 17, 1944.
(d) August 27, 1942.

2. When did Captain Walter Hancock arrive in Aachen, Germany, to assess the situation there, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?
(a) September, 1943.
(b) January, 1943.
(c) November, 1944.
(d) October, 1942.

3. In what year was Harry Ettlinger “banned from the local sports association,” according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1933.

4. On what date did the 29th Infantry Division begin an all-out assault on the German 352nd Division at Saint-Lô in a surprise attack?
(a) June 6, 1944.
(b) April 16, 1943.
(c) December 20, 1941.
(d) July 17, 1944.

5. When did the Battle of Aachen take place?
(a) December 12-18, 1944.
(b) March 12-20, 1944.
(c) October 2-21, 1944.
(d) September 1-12, 1943.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the city of Karlsruhe, Germany, established?

2. What was the name of Walker Hancock’s wife?

3. What literary review had Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein founded while attending Harvard?

4. What Irish writer and who lived in France described Saint-Lô as “the Capital of the Ruins” after the Allied victory there?

5. In what year did a Jewish merchant named Seligmann establish himself in Karlsruhe, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Captain Walker Hancock find when he returned to La Gleize after the Battle of the Bulge? How did he fulfill his mission there?

2. What “hard copies” did Rose Valland pass along to Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer in 1945?

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

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

5. What took place at the meeting of the Monuments Men in France on August 13, 1944? Where did they meet?

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

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

8. When did the Monuments Men operate? What was their mission in World War II?

9. What letter is quoted in the introduction to Part II: "Northern Europe"? Who wrote the letter?

10. How did Adolf Hitler feel about the displays of artwork and architecture in Italy? Where had Hitler intended to develop his own art city?

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