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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. Whose name was on the casket that was adorned with a wreath and red ribbons in the mine at Bernterode?
2. By June 4, 1945, how many repositories had been discovered in the U.S. Seventh Army territory alone?
3. Who established and opened the Dachau concentration camp?
4. What Monuments Man once commented that Hitler “wrote a book called Mein Kampf. And if people had just read it carefully, every single thing that’s happened was already predicted… the whole Jewish situation is there in clear writing in ink”?
5. The concentration camp at Buchenwald was liberated by the U.S. Third Army on what date?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe the work of the Monuments Men following the end of the war in Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapter 53?
2. When did Captain Robert Posey and Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein arrive in Altaussee? What did they discover there?
3. What did Captain Robert Posey and Private Lincoln Kirstein find in Trier, Germany, in March of 1945?
4. How and when did Adolf Hitler die? What did Hitler remark in his will regarding his art collection?
5. Who did the dentist’s son turn out to be that Captain Robert Posey and Private Lincoln Kirstein met at a village outside of Trier?
6. How does the author describe the setting of Altaussee, Germany in Part IV: “The Void,” Chapter 37?
7. To whom did Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer write to on May 17, 1945? What is stated in this letter?
8. When did Lieutenant George Stout arrive in Altaussee? How many artifacts were uncovered and catalogued by Stout there?
9. What led to the destruction of the Friedrichshain tower and many of the relics inside on May 1, 1945?
10. What events surrounded Hermann Göring and Hermann Bunjes in early May of 1945?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the biography of Harry Ettlinger and his life prior to deployment in World War II. For how many years had Harry and his family been living in the U.S.? How well did Harry speak English? When was Harry granted U.S. citizenship?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the figure of Major Ronald Edmund Balfour in the narrative. How old was Balfour in 1944? Where had he worked as a historian and lecturer? When and how was Balfour killed in WWII? What impact did his death have on the other Monuments Men?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer and the Demolitions on Reich Territory Decree of 1945 (the “Nero Decree”). When did Albert Speer join the Nazi Party? What was his connection to Adolf Hitler? Why did Albert Speer oppose the Demolitions on Reich Territory Decree of 1945?
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