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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. 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?
(a) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(b) Private Harry Ettlinger.
(c) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(d) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.

2. How many of the Monuments Men were still in their twenties, according to the author in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

3. According to the author, Givet, Belgium was a replacement depot when Harry Ettlinger arrived there. What term did the men call this staging area for replacement troops?
(a) A “timble bimble.”
(b) A “repple depple.”
(c) A “cross-depot.”
(d) A “lion’s gate.”

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

5. Who was the associate director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum that developed a presentation which examined the imminent danger of the loss or destruction of valuable art across Europe with the spread of Nazi power, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 3?
(a) Sheldon Keck.
(b) Rose Valland.
(c) Lamont Moore.
(d) Paul Sachs.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Rose Valland born?

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

3. It was March of what year when the Germans annexed Austria?

4. 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?

5. When was the Ghent Altarpiece completed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the history of the Ghent Altarpiece? Where did the work end up during World War II?

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

4. What hardships did Harry Ettlinger and his family encounter in Karlsruhe, Germany, in the 1930s?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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