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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapters 53-54.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the last known office of the former Paris Kunstschutz leader Count Wolff-Metternich said to be in March of 1945?
(a) Salzburg, Austria.
(b) Siegen, Germany.
(c) Karlsruhe, Germany.
(d) Bonn, Germany.

2. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler was director of what museum prior to the war?
(a) The Metropolitan Museum.
(b) The Guggenheim Museum.
(c) The Jeu de Paume Museum.
(d) The London Museum.

3. According to the author, in December of 1944, a devastating British air raid had killed how many civilians in Heilbronn?
(a) 6,000.
(b) 1,540.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 7,000.

4. What was the name of the local Nazi gouleiter (governor) at Altaussee that loaded crates of bombs into the salt mine where the relics were held?
(a) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(b) Hermann Göring.
(c) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(d) Heinrich Hoffman.

5. What does “MFAA” stand for?
(a) Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives.
(b) Monuments, Final Acts, and Associations.
(c) Metropolitan Financial Account Activities.
(d) Monuments of the Fair Act Association.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date of Rosenberg’s transmittal letter to Hitler accompanying albums of photographs of works of art stolen for the Führermuseum in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 7?

2. Who is described in Part III: “Germany,” Chapter 26 as “a curator at the National Gallery who had helped evacuate its prized works to the Biltmore Estate in 1941”?

3. Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 22 is titled “The Bulge” and takes place on the Western Front during what dates?

4. How many of the Monuments Men were still in their twenties, according to the author in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?

5. Who wrote the chronicle of Nazi Berlin titled I Am a Camera?

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