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

2. Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen was on the road east of what town when he was killed by gunfire?
(a) Karlsruhe, Germany.
(b) Aachen, Germany.
(c) Siegen, Germany.
(d) Heilbronn, Germany.

3. Where were the famed Amber Panels of Peter the Great looted from by the Nazis?
(a) The Guggenheim Museum.
(b) The Jeu de Paume Museum.
(c) Catherine Palace.
(d) The Suermondt Museum.

4. 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?
(a) March 18, 1945.
(b) March 6, 1944.
(c) July 17, 1944.
(d) September 17, 1940.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. Who was the commander of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?

4. When did Monuments Men Robert Posey and Lincoln Kirstein arrive at Altaussee?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. When did Lieutenant George Stout leave Europe? How does the author describe his demeanor as he left?

9. 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?

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

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