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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 wrote the draft lecture for soldiers in 1944 that is excerpted in the opening of Part V: “The Aftermath”?
(a) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(b) Private Harry Ettlinger.
(c) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(d) Captain Walker Hancock.

2. Who painted Lady with an Ermine?
(a) Rembrandt.
(b) Albrecht Dürer.
(c) Leonardo da Vinci.
(d) Pablo Picasso.

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

4. Who painted Landscape with the Good Samaritan?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci.
(b) Rembrandt.
(c) Pablo Picasso.
(d) Albrecht Dürer.

5. Who received the French Legion of Honor on November 4, 1945?
(a) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Private First Class Richard Courtney.
(c) Captain Walker Hancock.
(d) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old did Adolf Hitler turn on April 20, 1945?

2. What was the name of the Austrian that claimed to have been parachuted into the area [of Altaussee] by the British to organize resistance?

3. What German term from Part IV: “The Void,” Chapter 38 refers to the downfall of the gods?

4. What painting by Raphael was officially listed as missing among the masterpieces stolen from the Czartoryski Collection in Cracow?

5. Where was Albrecht Dürer born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When did Lieutenant George Stout arrive in Altaussee? How many artifacts were uncovered and catalogued by Stout there?

3. Whom does Robert Edsel credit as the “true hero of Altaussee” in Part V: “The Aftermath”? Why?

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

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

6. What does the author write of Harry Ettlinger’s meeting with Heinrich Hoffman in Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapter 53?

7. Who did the dentist’s son turn out to be that Captain Robert Posey and Private Lincoln Kirstein met at a village outside of Trier?

8. What did Captain Robert Posey and Private Lincoln Kirstein learn from the dentist’s son at the village outside of Trier in March of 1945?

9. How does the author describe the setting of Altaussee, Germany in Part IV: “The Void,” Chapter 37?

10. What led to the explosives being placed in the Altaussee mine? What led to their removal in April of 1945?

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