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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Leiwitz encourage Alfons not to do?
(a) Not to retreat with his men.
(b) Not to die for Nazi Germany if he could avoid it.
(c) Not to become intimidated by current conditions.
(d) Not to tell anyone what he had shared with him in private.

2. The Nuremburg Party Congress was a week-long celebration of what?
(a) Hitler's birthday.
(b) The anniversary of Hitler's rise to power.
(c) Germany's history and culture, symbolizing its regained sense of significance and strength in the world.
(d) The establishment of the Hitler Youth.

3. Which of the following statements about the fanfare and drum platoon is false?
(a) They practiced intensely and regularly.
(b) Alfons was never involved in these activities.
(c) They marched on Sunday mornings.
(d) They were awful musicians.

4. Hitler refused his commanders' pleas to fall back, and when they finally prevailed, what had happened?
(a) Hundreds of irreplaceable men died.
(b) Although some men had died, they managed to protect their armored vehicles.
(c) The Germans had lost many men, while the Allies had very few casualties.
(d) Tens of thousands of irreplaceable men had died.

5. Who was made Manfred's successor?
(a) Alfons.
(b) Goebbels.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Gert.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1930s, what were the children of Germany conditioned to believe?

2. Who was Hanna?

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

4. When the Americans attacked, the first attack was simply an Allied probe, and a half an hour later, what happened?

5. At fourteen, Alfons had not risen far in the Hitler Youth. What event prompted a new interest?

(see the answer key)

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