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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Captain Walter Hancock arrive in Aachen, Germany, to assess the situation there, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?
(a) September, 1943.
(b) November, 1944.
(c) October, 1942.
(d) January, 1943.

2. What literary review had Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein founded while attending Harvard?
(a) Cambridge Literary Journal.
(b) National Lampoon.
(c) Hound and Horn.
(d) Fox and Hound.

3. On what date did George Stout breathe “the first warm air of a British spring,” according to the author in the beginning of Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8?
(a) April 16, 1943.
(b) March 6, 1944.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) March 18, 1945.

4. The chronicle of Nazi Berlin titled I Am a Camera eventually became the basis for what musical?
(a) Cabaret.
(b) The Sound of Music.
(c) Cats.
(d) Les Miserables.

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

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) Emmerich Pöchmüller’s.
(b) Hermann Göring’s.
(c) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.
(d) Alfred Rosenberg’s.

7. What Irish writer and who lived in France described Saint-Lô as “the Capital of the Ruins” after the Allied victory there?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Edward Albee.

8. On what date was Harry Ettlinger’s nineteenth birthday?
(a) September 7, 1944.
(b) January 28, 1945.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) July 17, 1944.

9. 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) 1725.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1625.
(d) 1811.

10. When was the Ghent Altarpiece completed?
(a) 1562.
(b) 1742.
(c) 1326.
(d) 1432.

11. The view from La Gleize, Belgium, overlooks what forest?
(a) North Sentinel Island Forest.
(b) The Trillemarka – Rollagsfjell Forest.
(c) The Ardennes Forest.
(d) The Crooked Forest.

12. When did Captain Walker Hancock join George Stout on a mission to visit a repository that held Dutch masterpieces and an original Rembrandt and to arrange for the protection of the works?
(a) September 16, 1944.
(b) June 6, 1944.
(c) March 6, 1944.
(d) October 10, 1944.

13. 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.

14. What is the title of Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 21?
(a) “The Train.”
(b) “Cleves, Germany.”
(c) “Going West.”
(d) “The Cellar.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does “LST” stand for?

2. Who was assigned to inspect monuments in Sicily on his own with no resources or assistance and once in Italy became buried by bureaucracy, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission”?

3. When was James Rorimer assigned to Paris, where he was to protect fifty-two official monuments, assist hundreds of Nazi looting victims, and track down many hundreds of missing public monuments?

4. Who was the first Monuments Man to tour the valley of La Gleize, Belgium, after the Battle of the Bulge?

5. When is the letter dated that is from James Rorimer to his wife Katherine in the opening of Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10?

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