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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other name did Alfons reference for the National Socialist German Workers Party Congress?
(a) Hitler's "worker's congress."
(b) The Nazi "worker's mass."
(c) Hitler's "high court."
(d) The Nazi "high mass."

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

3. Alfons's childhood friend Heinz Ermann could not join the Hitler Youth. Later, what happened to Heinz's family?
(a) They were gassed at Auschwitz.
(b) They moved to the countryside.
(c) They moved to a large city in Germany's industrial heartland, Oberhausen.
(d) They chose to become followers of Hitler.

4. Unlike Hitler, the German people were not eager to go to war for what reason?
(a) They wanted to be a peaceful nation.
(b) They remembered the terrible slaughter of World War I.
(c) They were afraid they would lose Hitler as their leader.
(d) They didn't think the country was properly trained or equipped for war.

5. Which of the following statements about the fanfare and drum platoon is false?
(a) They practiced intensely and regularly.
(b) Alfons was never involved in these activities.
(c) They marched on Sunday mornings.
(d) They were awful musicians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the end of the 1938 Nuremburg Party Congress, Hitler delivered a speech that had what outcome?

3. By whom was Alfons primarily raised?

4. What occurred on Kristallnacht?

5. Alfons usually served mass while wearing what?

(see the answer key)

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