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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 Martin Bormann’s secretary in the bunker with Hitler and thus privy to most communiqués in the Third Reich, according to the author in Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapter 51?
(a) Eberhard Mayerhoffer.
(b) Christopher Isherwood.
(c) Dr. Helmut von Hummel.
(d) Heinrich Hoffman.

2. Cologne had been hit by how many repeated Allied bombing runs when George Stout and Walker Hancock entered the city in March of 1945?
(a) 211.
(b) 125.
(c) 164.
(d) 262.

3. Who was the chief of Hitler’s security police and the second-highest-ranking member of the SS in May of 1945?
(a) Heinrich Hoffman.
(b) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(c) Dr. Emmerich Pöchmüller.
(d) Archibald MacLeish.

4. When did Frederick William I die?
(a) 1640.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1740.
(d) 1725.

5. On what date did George Stout arrive in Bernterode, Germany, to assess the mine there?
(a) April 16, 1945.
(b) July 17, 1944.
(c) September 7, 1944.
(d) May 1, 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the nickname of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?

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

3. Who painted Lady with an Ermine?

4. What Monuments Man once commented that Hitler “wrote a book called Mein Kampf. And if people had just read it carefully, every single thing that’s happened was already predicted… the whole Jewish situation is there in clear writing in ink”?

5. Who established and opened the Dachau concentration camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. What events surrounded Hermann Göring and Hermann Bunjes in early May of 1945?

2. Where were Walker Hancock and George Stout when they learned of Major Ronald Edmund Balfour’s death? How did they respond?

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

4. How many repositories does the author describe that were found in Germany following the war in Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapter 53?

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. What did Captain Robert Posey and Private Lincoln Kirstein find in Trier, Germany, in March of 1945?

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