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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. What was the name of Robert Posey’s wife?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Alice.
(d) Elizabeth.

2. When was the city of Munich founded?
(a) 1325.
(b) 1495.
(c) 1265.
(d) 1158.

3. When did Monuments Men Robert Posey and Lincoln Kirstein arrive at Altaussee?
(a) May 29, 1945.
(b) April 12, 1945.
(c) May 12, 1945.
(d) May 1, 1945.

4. 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) 125.
(b) 211.
(c) 262.
(d) 164.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. When was Hitler’s Nero Decree issued?

5. Who was the head of the Mineralogical Department of the Natural History Museum, Vienna that supposedly sent a message alerting Major Pearson to the hidden treasures at Altaussee?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who worked with Lieutenant George Stout and Captain Walker Hancock in Bernterode? How long did this mission take?

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