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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did Helen weigh when she was freed from the Kratzau camp?
(a) 65 pounds.
(b) 70 pounds.
(c) 80 pounds.
(d) 90 pounds.

2. How many Jews did Jo Vis have under his care when he was arrested by the Nazis and sent to Dachau?
(a) 45.
(b) 60.
(c) 13.
(d) 22.

3. How many people were killed by the bomb that Colonel Count von Stauffenberg planted in Hitler's headquarters?
(a) 19.
(b) 4.
(c) 43.
(d) 12.

4. When in 1945 were all German teenage boys 15 and older ordered to the front lines?
(a) June 3.
(b) May 5.
(c) April 20.
(d) March 3.

5. On what date did the exterminations at Auschwitz halt?
(a) October 22, 1942.
(b) April 13, 1943.
(c) November 28, 1944.
(d) July 20, 1944.

6. Why was Alfons Heck sent to Spang?
(a) To defend radar equipment.
(b) To contact Heinrich Himmler.
(c) To defend a nuclear missile.
(d) To defend an air base.

7. What was Albert Speer's position when Alfons met him?
(a) Minister of Death Camps.
(b) Minister of International Relations.
(c) Minister of Finance.
(d) Minister of Armaments and Ammunitions.

8. When did Hitler order the West Wall to be built?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1928.

9. On what date in 1945 did German troops begin blowing up bridges across the Rhine for defense?
(a) March 5.
(b) April 30.
(c) May 3.
(d) October 2.

10. How far is Bitburg from Wittlich?
(a) 100 miles.
(b) 25 miles.
(c) 40 miles.
(d) 65 miles.

11. Where was Alfons ordered to report in order to be sworn in as a Fahnrich with the Luftwaffe?
(a) Kassel.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Spang.
(d) Frankfurt.

12. What hours did Helen work at the factory in Kratzau?
(a) 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.
(b) 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
(c) 12 p.m. to 12 a.m.
(d) 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

13. When did the German officer leading the attack on the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw declare "Warsaw's Jewish district is no more" (100)?
(a) April 13, 1943.
(b) October 22, 1942.
(c) May 14, 1940.
(d) May 16, 1943.

14. How many boys did Alfons Heck take charge of with his promotion to the position of Gefolgschaftsfuher?
(a) 40-60.
(b) 60-80.
(c) 150-190.
(d) 200-250.

15. How many German children became orphans as a result of World War II?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 60,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was author Kurt Vonnegut held as a prisoner of war during WWII?

2. Where was Doris living with her foster parents when Helen was finally able to see her again?

3. To what concentration camp was Jo Vis sent after being caught for harboring an enemy of the Reich?

4. What was the name of Jo Vis's wife?

5. For what magazine did Margaret Bourke-White work when she went to cover the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps?

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