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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alfons usually served mass while wearing what?
(a) His altar boy robes.
(b) His full uniform beneath his altar boy robes, but without his dagger.
(c) His full uniform, belt and dagger.
(d) His full uniform, including belt and dagger, beneath his altar boy robes.

2. What was the Gymnasium?
(a) The highest track of German education to which only 6% gained admittance.
(b) A highly respected position within the Hitler Youth.
(c) A Natzi training academy to which only 5% gained admittance.
(d) A special association for those who achieved top honors in school.

3. What did Herr Becker claim as the reason for Kristallnacht?
(a) Spontaneous action against the Jews for the murder of a German diplomat.
(b) The police were making an effort to protect all Germans.
(c) German Jews should not have been allowed to own businesses.
(d) Punishment for people who did not respect Hitler.

4. Which of the following people was not a member of Alfons's family?
(a) George.
(b) Maria.
(c) Franz.
(d) Gustav.

5. How did Alfons combat his growing desire to be with a woman?
(a) Through frequent prayer and the confessional.
(b) By confiding in his grandmother about it.
(c) By confiding in his friends about it.
(d) He took on extra jobs in order to stay busy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the concentration camps first began, what was their purpose?

2. Why did Alfons say his parents were impressed by Hitler?

3. As the war began, the unease held by the German people disappeared with the success of what?

4. Which of the following statements about Alfons's family's farmhand is false?

5. Nearly a year after the British declared war on Germany, what occurred on May 10, 1940?

(see the answer key)

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