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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sacrificed his life for a comrade?
(a) Sergeant Baum.
(b) Rabbit.
(c) Gert.
(d) Meister.

2. 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.

3. In Germany in the 1930s, which of the following statements was false?
(a) If someone was Jewish, a gypsy, gay or a political opponent of the Nazis, 1930's Germany seemed like a place of promise.
(b) If someone was Jewish, a gypsy, gay or a political opponent of the Nazis, 1930s Germany was not a place of promise.
(c) Wittlich became a garrison town, which brought the town prosperity, and ended unemployment.
(d) Hitler's obsession with the Jews lasted until his final breath.

4. If Roman were to have disobeyed Alfons's orders, how would Alfons have responded?
(a) He would have sent him to a punishment camp.
(b) He would have fired him as his assistant.
(c) He would have quickly forgiven him.
(d) He would have overlooked it, because they were friends.

5. Which of the following is not a memory Alfons holds from his childhood?
(a) His parents died.
(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 moved away to a large city in Germany's industrial heartland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following people was not a member of Alfons's family?

2. Who was Hanna?

3. In the winter of 1943, what was the condition of Germany?

4. Which of the following statements was true about Alfons's grandmother at the start of the war?

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

(see the answer key)

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