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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Alfons do when over a dozen Sherman tanks arrived in Wittlich?
(a) He changed into a pair of coveralls, and buried his Luftwaffe uniform.
(b) Wearing his Luftwaffe uniform, he left the house prepared to die for Germany.
(c) He successfully escaped.
(d) He angrily stormed toward the tanks, demanding they leave Wittlich.

2. What experience caused Alfons to grow sick?
(a) Two men and a woman were killed right in front of him.
(b) The Hitler Youth received their first rifles.
(c) He was told how civilian saboteurs would be executed.
(d) He was deeply discouraged about the state of the war.

3. What was the first thing Alfons needed to do when he arrived in Wittlich?
(a) Discipline men who had been insubordinate.
(b) Train the newly drafted soldiers.
(c) Encourage the men in his unit.
(d) Recruit more men.

4. At the end of the War, what were the Soviets known for?
(a) Not physically abusing their prisoners.
(b) Committing insane brutalities against German refugees.
(c) Treating prisoners with great dignity.
(d) Killing very few German refugees.

5. Why did the American soldiers become suspicious?
(a) They found Natzi uniforms buried around Wittlich.
(b) There were not very many people left in Wittlich.
(c) The people of Wittlich were obedient to their orders.
(d) They had been in Wittlich for a month and hadn't met a single Nazi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alfons received orders to do what?

2. Whom did Alfons greet when he arrived in Wittlich?

3. How many Americans lost their life in the conquest of Wittlich?

4. What town did the men now have to defend?

5. When one of Alfons's men deserted, how did Alfons respond?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Alfons describe the sentence he received, and the work orders from the French?

2. What was the purpose of Dr. Robert Ley's visit?

3. When Alfons arrived home, what measures were taken to ensure the Americans wouldn't know he was an officer?

4. How was Alfons finally discovered as a German officer?

5. Describe the difference between how Alfons felt about Germany during the Hitler years,and how he felt about those same experiences many years later?

6. At the beginning of Chapter 7, what promotion did Alfons receive, and why?

7. When did Alfons meet Hitler and observe that he looked older and frail?

8. Explain Alfons's encounter with a major, whose name he could not remember, but who probably saved his life.

9. Describe Germany's attitude toward the war by late 1944, when many people felt they should not continue to fight.

10. What was the significance of Alfons's conversations with Leiwitz?

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