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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 is credited with the following quote in the introduction to Part V: “The Aftermath”? “All the works of art for whose fate we still tremble will return to us, bringing the light of their beauty to attract, as before, pilgrims from every country and to inspire thoughts of peace.”
(a) Rose Valland.
(b) Dr. Cesare Fasola.
(c) Captain Walker Hancock.
(d) Private Harry Ettlinger.

2. According to the author, in December of 1944, a devastating British air raid had killed how many civilians in Heilbronn?
(a) 1,540.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 7,000.

3. For what publication did Lincoln Kirstein write an article in 1945 that stated of the Altausee mine that “so many witnesses told so many stories that the more information we accumulated the less truth it seemed to contain”?
(a) Town and Country.
(b) The Atlantic.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) The New York Times.

4. Before Harry Ettlinger’s grandfather fled Germany in 1939, he was forced to stash his art collection in a storage facility near what town?
(a) Bonn, Germany.
(b) Trier, Germany.
(c) Salzburg, Austria.
(d) Baden-Baden, Germany.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapter 53 refers to an ornamental shoulder piece on an item of clothing, typically on the coat or jacket of a military uniform?

2. In addition to the mine, a glass factory was also running at Heilbronn when Harry Ettlinger arrived in September of 1945. What products were being produced at the glass factory?

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

4. Where did Harry Ettlinger send his grandfather’s art collection once he recovered it following the war?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Harry Ettlinger manage to locate and recover his grandfather’s art collection?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. What did Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer find in Neuschwanstein on his visit in early May of 1945?

9. What events took place between April 16 and April 20, 1945, as described in the narrative?

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

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