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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did a Jewish merchant named Seligmann establish himself in Karlsruhe, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?
(a) 1625.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1725.
(d) 1811.

2. Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5 describes events in North Africa at what time?
(a) January, 1943.
(b) October, 1944.
(c) October, 1942.
(d) June, 1939.

3. Where was Rose Valland born?
(a) Bad Godesberg, Germany.
(b) Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, France.
(c) Bernterode, Germany.
(d) Asnières, France.

4. In what year was Harry Ettlinger “banned from the local sports association,” according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1935.

5. When did the Battle of Hürtgen Forest take place?
(a) August to September, 1943.
(b) March to May, 1944.
(c) September to December, 1944.
(d) January to February, 1944.

6. According to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 21, the official role of the ERR was to provide material for whose “scholarly” institutes?
(a) Alfred Rosenberg’s.
(b) Hermann Göring’s.
(c) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.
(d) Emmerich Pöchmüller’s.

7. When did Major Ronald Edmund Balfour arrive at the cathedral in Bruges to assess the damage by the looting Germans?
(a) October 10, 1944.
(b) June 6, 1944.
(c) September 16, 1944.
(d) March 6, 1944.

8. When was the city of Karlsruhe, Germany, established?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1645.
(c) 1715.
(d) 1598.

9. The author states in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission” that the Monuments Men were a group of men and women from how many nations?
(a) 13.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 21.

10. According to the author in Chapter 11 of Part II: “Northern Europe,” the Hotel de Ville library which was destroyed contained the whose charter?
(a) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.
(b) William the Conqueror’s.
(c) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach’s.
(d) Adolf Hitler’s.

11. Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece?
(a) Johannes Vermeer.
(b) Albrecht Dürer.
(c) Hubert and Jan van Eyck.
(d) Rembrandt.

12. What Austrian city did Hitler intend to redevelop into his own version of Florence, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 2?
(a) Salzburg, Austria.
(b) Linz, Austria.
(c) Altaussee, Austria.
(d) Vienna, Austria.

13. Who was friends with Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein and the Librarian of Congress in 1944?
(a) Christopher Isherwood.
(b) Langdon Warner.
(c) Archibald MacLeish.
(d) Lamont Moore.

14. On what date did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor and catapult the U.S. into World War II?
(a) June 26, 1939.
(b) May 27, 1944.
(c) December 7, 1941.
(d) August 27, 1942.

15. For what factory did Harry Ettlinger work to support his family while he was still in high school?
(a) Schultz Manufacturing.
(b) Shiman Manufacturing.
(c) Weimar Manufacturing.
(d) Schmidt Manufacturing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name refers to vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort?

2. What was the name of George Stout’s wife?

3. Who was the director of the French National Museums that had the Louvre's works of art transported to the French countryside before Germany's invasion in 1940?

4. What archeological colleague of Colonel Wheeler’s “happened to be serving as an artillery captain in a unit near Leptis Magna,” according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5?

5. According to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5, who held Egypt against the Nazis?

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