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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) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(c) Private First Class Richard Courtney.
(d) Christopher Isherwood.

2. 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) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(c) Private First Class Richard Courtney.
(d) Private Harry Ettlinger.

3. 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) Trier, Germany.
(b) Baden-Baden, Germany.
(c) Bonn, Germany.
(d) Salzburg, Austria.

4. The concentration camp at Buchenwald was liberated by the U.S. Third Army on what date?
(a) March 18, 1945.
(b) April 12, 1945.
(c) March 20, 1945.
(d) September 7, 1944.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In July/August of 1945, a building at Marburg University was requisitioned for the collection of archives of the Monuments Men. Who was placed in charge of this facility?

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

3. What was the name of Robert Posey’s wife?

4. When Hans Frank was apprehended by U.S. forces, he turned over how many volumes of his personal diaries to his captors?

5. On what date did James Rorimer first arrive at the southern German town of Heilbronn?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom was Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer upset that he was unable to interrogate as he approached Neuschwanstein?

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

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

4. 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?

5. For whom was Private Harry Ettlinger working as a translator in May of 1945? Where had he originally been assigned?

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

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

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

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

10. Where were Captain Robert Posey and Private Lincoln Kirstein assigned in April of 1945? What did they discover in this location?

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