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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Hitler perceive the Hitler Youth?
(a) He didn't think he would need them eventually.
(b) He felt they were a nuisance.
(c) He believed they should be treated as children, and not be expected to train for war.
(d) He praised them and believed that one day they would rule the world.

2. When the concentration camps first began, what was their purpose?
(a) They were detention centers for political enemies.
(b) They were a place for Jews to live peacefully outside of Hitler rule.
(c) They were temporary holding cells for Jews until they submitted to Hitler's rule.
(d) They were a place where Jews could start businesses and work together.

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

4. Which of the following was true about the Hitler Youth?
(a) They were not allowed to participate in the Nuremburg Party Congress.
(b) They were not eager to hear Hitler speak at the Nuremburg Party Congress.
(c) They were the most fanatical Nazi organization.
(d) They were frightened by Hitler and unsure of his rule over Germany.

5. Which of the following is not a memory Alfons holds from his childhood?
(a) His parents moved away to a large city in Germany's industrial heartland.
(b) Nazi troops wearing brown shirts marched through the town of Wittlich.
(c) His teacher deliberately discriminated against the Jews in the classroom.
(d) His parents died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one complaint of Catholic parents with regard to the Hitler Youth?

2. The carefree life of the Hitler Youth ended when?

3. Which of the following was true about the children of Germany in the 1930s?

4. Which of the following statements about the fanfare and drum platoon is false?

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

(see the answer key)

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