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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. It was March of what year when the Germans annexed Austria?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1939.

2. Around what year did Seligmann’s descendants choose the surname Ettlinger?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1750.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1800.

3. The author states in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission” that the Monuments Men were a group of men and women from how many nations?
(a) 13.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 21.

4. 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) Siegen, Germany.
(b) Trier, Germany.
(c) Nuremberg, Germany.
(d) Salzburg, Austria.

5. The chronicle of Nazi Berlin titled I Am a Camera eventually became the basis for what musical?
(a) The Sound of Music.
(b) Cats.
(c) Cabaret.
(d) Les Miserables.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Battle of Aachen take place?

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

3. Who was the first Monuments Man to tour the valley of La Gleize, Belgium, after the Battle of the Bulge?

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

5. What was the name of George Stout’s wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. What information did Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer obtain in Paris in November of 1944?

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

8. What realization did Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer make regarding the locations of the most valuable works of art based on the information he gained from Rose Valland in 1945?

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

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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