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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 was the operations commander at the mine in Heilbronn when Private Harry Ettlinger arrived in September of 1945?
(a) Lieutenant Dale Ford.
(b) Christopher Isherwood.
(c) Private First Class Richard Courtney.
(d) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.

2. Who was described as “Adolf Hitler’s close friend and personal photographer” in Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapter 53?
(a) Heinrich Hoffman.
(b) Rose Valland.
(c) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(d) Albrecht Dürer.

3. What Monuments Man wrote of the discovery of the Bruges Madonna, “the light of our lamps played over the soft folds of the Madonna’s robe, the delicate modeling of her face. Her grave eyes looked down, seemed only half aware of the sturdy Child nestling close against her, one hand firmly held in hers”?
(a) Christopher Isherwood.
(b) Thomas Carr Howe, Jr.
(c) Archibald MacLeish.
(d) Langdon Warner.

4. Who was the soldier that smashed the artwork in the home of a former Nazi official in March of 1945 because he was enraged at the Red Cross care packages found there?
(a) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Private Harry Ettlinger.
(d) Private First Class Richard Courtney.

5. When did Monuments Men Robert Posey and Lincoln Kirstein arrive at Altaussee?
(a) May 29, 1945.
(b) May 1, 1945.
(c) May 12, 1945.
(d) April 12, 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Albert Speer receive word that four officers had been executed on Hitler’s orders because they had not blown up the bridge at Remagen?

2. According to the author, in December of 1944, a devastating British air raid had killed how many civilians in Heilbronn?

3. Where was British Monuments Man Ronald Balfour when he was killed by shrapnel?

4. When was the Reich Sword of Prince Albrecht forged?

5. On what date did the German forces surrender in Italy?

Short Essay Questions

1. To whom did Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer write to on May 17, 1945? What is stated in this letter?

2. When did Captain Robert Posey and Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein arrive in Altaussee? What did they discover there?

3. Why does the author state in Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapter 54 that the reconstruction of Europe after World War II was one of the most complicated endeavors of modern times?

4. Where were the central figures of the Monuments Men assigned in early April of 1945?

5. How does the author describe Albert Speer in Part III: “Germany”?

6. Where were Lieutenant George Stout and Captain Walker Hancock on the first of May in 1945? What did they find at this location?

7. Why does Robert Edsel assert that it was difficult to determine the story of Altaussee in the beginning of Part V: “The Aftermath”?

8. How and when did Adolf Hitler die? What did Hitler remark in his will regarding his art collection?

9. How does the author describe the work of the Monuments Men following the end of the war in Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapter 53?

10. What led to the destruction of the Friedrichshain tower and many of the relics inside on May 1, 1945?

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