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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Monuments Men Robert Posey and Lincoln Kirstein arrive at Altaussee?
(a) May 12, 1945.
(b) May 1, 1945.
(c) May 29, 1945.
(d) April 12, 1945.

2. Who is credited with the following quote in the introduction to Part V: “The Aftermath”? “All the works of art for whose fate we still tremble will return to us, bringing the light of their beauty to attract, as before, pilgrims from every country and to inspire thoughts of peace.”
(a) Dr. Cesare Fasola.
(b) Rose Valland.
(c) Captain Walker Hancock.
(d) Private Harry Ettlinger.

3. When Harry Ettlinger ordered a wall removed from the mine at Heilbronn in September of 1945, a chamber was discovered with long tables piled with bottles. What was inside the bottles?
(a) Coca-Cola.
(b) LSD.
(c) Cyanide.
(d) Nitroglycerin.

4. How long was the memo that Albert Speer composed on the apocalyptic effects of Hitler’s planned “scorched earth” policy?
(a) 22 pages.
(b) 16 pages.
(c) 4 pages.
(d) 10 pages.

5. The basis of the English word “salary” derives from what substance once used as money?
(a) Salad.
(b) Salt.
(c) Shale.
(d) Sand.

6. Where did Harry Ettlinger send his grandfather’s art collection once he recovered it following the war?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Newark, New Jersey.
(c) London, England.
(d) Paris, France.

7. Who painted Lady with an Ermine?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci.
(b) Rembrandt.
(c) Albrecht Dürer.
(d) Pablo Picasso.

8. On what date did Albert Speer receive word that four officers had been executed on Hitler’s orders because they had not blown up the bridge at Remagen?
(a) March 18, 1945.
(b) July 17, 1944.
(c) March 6, 1944.
(d) September 17, 1940.

9. Who was the technical director at the mine in Altaussee?
(a) Christopher Isherwood.
(b) Dr. Helmut von Hummel.
(c) Eberhard Mayerhoffer.
(d) Heinrich Hoffman.

10. Who was the general director of the Altaussee mining operations in April of 1945?
(a) Dr. Emmerich Pöchmüller.
(b) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(c) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach.
(d) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.

11. How many paintings were discovered at the repository in the Altausee mine?
(a) 5,215.
(b) 9,213.
(c) 2,356.
(d) 6,577.

12. As Hermann Göring made his way toward his estate at Mauterndorf in May of 1945, his artwork was in transit to what location?
(a) Unterstein.
(b) Trier.
(c) Heilbronn.
(d) Salzburg.

13. The city name of Salzburg translates from German to English to mean what?
(a) White Castle.
(b) Salt Castle.
(c) Tall Castle.
(d) Sand Castle.

14. When was the Red-White-Red-Book published by the Austrian government?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1946.

15. What was the name of Adolf Hitler’s personal assistant?
(a) Johannes Vermeer.
(b) Monsieur George.
(c) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(d) Martin Bormann.

Short Answer Questions

1. Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen was on the road east of what town when he was killed by gunfire?

2. When did Frederick William I die?

3. Who was the chief of Hitler’s security police and the second-highest-ranking member of the SS in May of 1945?

4. Before Harry Ettlinger’s grandfather fled Germany in 1939, he was forced to stash his art collection in a storage facility near what town?

5. Who was the commander of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?

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