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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was friends with Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein and the Librarian of Congress in 1944?
2. When did the defeat of the German-Italian forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein take place?
3. The view from La Gleize, Belgium, overlooks what forest?
4. Where did Harry Ettlinger attend basic training for the Army?
5. When Captain Walter Hancock found the catalogue of the articles from the museum at Aachen, he discovered that the most valuable items had been moved to what city in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?
Short Essay Questions
1. What letter is quoted in the introduction to Part II: "Northern Europe"? Who wrote the letter?
2. What hardships did Harry Ettlinger and his family encounter in Karlsruhe, Germany, in the 1930s?
3. When did Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer arrive in Normandy? What was his mission there?
4. How did Rose Valland obtain the information that she passed along to Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer?
5. Where were the central Monuments Men during the Battle of the Bulge? What work were they doing at this time?
6. What mission did Captain Walker Hancock and Lieutenant George Stout undertake in October of 1944?
7. What led up to the looting of the Bruges Madonna sculpture in 1944?
8. What did Captain Walker Hancock find when he returned to La Gleize after the Battle of the Bulge? How did he fulfill his mission there?
9. Who comprised the group known as the Monuments Men? How does the author characterize these individuals in his introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?
10. Where was Hermann Göring’s art collection transported in March of 1945? Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the establishment and structure of the MFAA. How many Monuments Men were there overall in 1944? How many were from the U.S.? Where were these operatives distributed in Europe?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the life and work of Rose Valland. How did Rose Valland learn the German language? How was she able to convince the Nazis that she didn’t know German? What actions did Valland take that helped the Monuments Men in locating art?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the figure of Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer in the narrative. How old was Rorimer when he landed in France? How did Rorimer stand apart from the other Monuments Men that the author has introduced in the book?
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