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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is a reason why the Nazis were successful at demonizing the Jews?
(a) Hitler declared that the Jews were evil.
(b) Hitler was able to tie the threat of communist revolution to the Jewish race.
(c) The German Jews were not Catholic.
(d) Hitler claimed they were a threat to the Germans and would eventually rule the country if they were not stopped.

2. Why did Alfons say his parents were impressed by Hitler?
(a) He influenced their son to want to be a Hitler Youth.
(b) He made them extremely wealthy.
(c) He was very inclusive, and treated all Germans equally.
(d) His rule brought full employment and economic order.

3. In the 1930s, what were the children of Germany conditioned to believe?
(a) The Jews did not kill Jesus.
(b) The Germanic-Nordic race was superior.
(c) The German Jews were superior.
(d) Discrimination was wrong.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Gymnasium?

2. What did Alfons believe was his first and most important duty?

3. In what way did Alfons's elementary school teacher, Herr Becker, deliberately discriminate against the Jews in his classroom?

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

5. Unlike Hitler, the German people were not eager to go to war for what reason?

(see the answer key)

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