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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. During what years was Franklin D. Roosevelt in office as President of the U.S.?
(a) 1931-1945.
(b) 1933-1945.
(c) 1939-1945.
(d) 1936-1942.

2. What was the name of George Stout’s wife?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Margie.
(d) Katherine.

3. What literary review had Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein founded while attending Harvard?
(a) Fox and Hound.
(b) Hound and Horn.
(c) National Lampoon.
(d) Cambridge Literary Journal.

4. What does “MFAA” stand for?
(a) Monuments of the Fair Act Association.
(b) Monuments, Final Acts, and Associations.
(c) Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives.
(d) Metropolitan Financial Account Activities.

5. What is the date of the letter from Supreme Commander General Dwight David Eisenhower to General Vernon Prichard which opens Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) June 26, 1939.
(b) August 27, 1942.
(c) April 16, 1943.
(d) December 20, 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who rallied the survivors of the attack at Omaha Beach with the rallying cry, “Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here,” according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10?

2. Who founded the city of Karlsruhe, Germany?

3. Who is cited with the quotation describing the scientific breakthroughs he made with George Stout between 1927 and 1932 in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?

4. The First Reich refers to what empire?

5. Where did Harry Ettlinger attend basic training for the Army?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. How did Rose Valland’s actions protect valuable works of art in August of 1944?

7. Where were Captain Robert Posey and Captain Walker Hancock assigned after the victory of the Allies in Metz? What did they discover in these locations?

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

9. When did the Allied forces bomb the abbey at Monte Cassino, Italy? How did this event reflect upon the Allies?

10. How does the author describe Lieutenant George Stout in 1944 and before this point? What was Stout’s specialty in the art world?

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