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

2. For what factory did Harry Ettlinger work to support his family while he was still in high school?
(a) Weimar Manufacturing.
(b) Schmidt Manufacturing.
(c) Shiman Manufacturing.
(d) Schultz Manufacturing.

3. Shrivenham is described in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8 as a small rural village about halfway between London and what city?
(a) Canterbury.
(b) Bristol.
(c) Liverpool.
(d) Leeds.

4. When was the Ghent Altarpiece completed?
(a) 1742.
(b) 1432.
(c) 1326.
(d) 1562.

5. When Captain Walter Hancock found the catalogue of the articles from the museum at Aachen, he discovered that the most valuable items had been moved to what city in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?
(a) Salzburg, Austria.
(b) Siegen, Germany.
(c) Trier, Germany.
(d) Nuremberg, Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was assigned by Stout to assist the newest U.S. Ninth Army Monuments officer, Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen, in December of 1944?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. When did the Battle of Aachen take place?

5. After the Allied victory at Saint-Lô, who was the former schoolteacher and popular officer whose body was wrapped in an American flag and hoisted atop the ruins of the church of Sainte-Croix?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When did the Ettlinger family settle in Karlsruhe? What history of the family is described in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?

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

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

6. Where was Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler stationed in January of 1943? How does the author describe his perception of this setting in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5?

7. Who founded the city of Karlsruhe, Germany? What was notable about the people who settled in this city?

8. What led up to the looting of the Bruges Madonna sculpture in 1944?

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

10. With whom did Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler work in his efforts at conservation in January of 1943, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5?

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