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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. When did Italy form the first national art-crime unit?

2. How much older was framer Christian Meichler than Breitwieser?

3. What did Breitwieser and Kleinklaus usually do when they went out with friends?

4. In Chapter 15, what was the date of most of the works that have been stolen that Von der Muhll was pursuing?

5. When did psychotherapist Schmidt subject Breitwieser to a battery of psychological tests?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who stole the Mona Lisa in 1911, and how did he steal it?

2. How did Breitwieser steal the Adam and Eve sculpture?

3. Who began to believe many museum theft in Switzerland were linked?

4. How were Breitwieser and Kleinklaus's childhoods different?

5. What became Breitwieser's calling card for his thefts?

6. How was the painting The Scream retrieved after it was stolen?

7. Although Breitwieser claimed he did not interact much with his mother, how did they interact?

8. Why did Breitwieser give up on a theft of a knife in May 1996 and then return later to get the knife?

9. What did Breitwieser look like?

10. Where did Breitwieser and Kleinklaus live?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The mission of museums was to share and allow visitors to enjoy a piece as unencumbered as possible by security apparatuses. Why was security lax at some museums? How did lax security enable Breitwieser to be so successful in stealing valuable artworks?

Essay Topic 2

An allusion is a figure of speech that does not directly refer to a person, place, or thing. What are some allusions in The Art Thief? Why might it be difficult to decipher an allusion just by the context of a passage in a book? How do the allusions Finkel uses help readers’ understanding of people, events, or concepts in the book?

Essay Topic 3

According to police logic, there were three ways that thieves usually got rid of art. What were the three ways that thieves usually got rid of art? How did that theory hamper their investigation of Breitwieser’s thefts?

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