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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why was Alfons's grandmother furious when he was ordered to report to the glider camp?
(a) She needed his help on the farm.
(b) He was only 14 and too young.
(c) She thought he would be a better flight mechanic than a pilot.
(d) It was too far from his hometown.

3. Which of the following was true about the children of Germany in the 1930s?
(a) They were not required to follow Hitler if they don't want to.
(b) They were scared of Hitler and the Hitler Youth.
(c) They were eager to join the Hitler Youth, for its action and glamor.
(d) They hoped it would not be required that they join the Hitler Youth.

4. Which of the following people were allowed to join the Jungvolk, the Hitler Youth's junior branch?
(a) Children under the age of six.
(b) Jewish children.
(c) Handicapped children.
(d) Aryan children.

5. As the war began, the unease held by the German people disappeared with the success of what?
(a) The Blitzkrieg.
(b) The Kristallnacht.
(c) The Hitler Youth.
(d) The Gymnasium.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a memory Alfons holds from his childhood?

2. In 1942, what decision was made at a top-secret conference in Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin?

3. In the 1930s, approximately how many German Jews were there?

4. Hitler took advantage of what quality of the German people?

5. Alfons's grandmother applied to get their farmhand out of prison camp, and he was released under what restriction?

(see the answer key)

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