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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age did basic training begin for membership in the army of the Third Reich?
(a) Six.
(b) Ten.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Eight.

2. What was the Gymnasium?
(a) A highly respected position within the Hitler Youth.
(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 Natzi training academy to which only 5% gained admittance.

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

4. Where was Alfons Heck born?
(a) Oberhausen, Germany.
(b) France.
(c) America.
(d) Wittlich, Germany.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is true about Alfons's family?

2. The Hitler Youth did not cause many parental complaints, particularly when?

3. By the summer of 1940, why did Alfons doubt that he would be fortunate enough to fight in the war?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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