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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following statements about Alfons's family's farmhand is false?
(a) He was a fiercely loyal Frenchman.
(b) He was a great worker.
(c) He was a Parisian baker.
(d) He was not a loyal Frenchman.

2. What did Alfons believe was his first and most important duty?
(a) Total submission to Hitler's rule and Germany's welfare.
(b) To submit to the authority of his teacher, Herr Becker.
(c) Total submission to the Jewish leaders in Wittlich.
(d) To respect his grandmother and help her on the farm.

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

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

5. Nearly a year after the British declared war on Germany, what occurred on May 10, 1940?
(a) French troops marched across the border of Germany.
(b) Natzi troops attacked Britain.
(c) Nazi troops marched across the borders of France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Holland.
(d) British and French troops marched across the border of Germany.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 4, Alfons had his first doubts about what?

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

4. How did the small towns usually respond to the air raid sirens?

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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