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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following statements about Monika Mohn is false?
(a) When Alfons met her, she was burning documents.
(b) She was the final member of Bann 244.
(c) Alfons hid her in her father's shooting hut.
(d) She was Wendt's secretary.

2. Although the Americans seemed to trust Alfons, what did they order him to do?
(a) Try to escape so that, if caught, they had a legitimate reason to kill him.
(b) Turn himself in to the next unit who came through town.
(c) Go to a P.O.W. camp.
(d) Leave town.

3. Upon reflection, how did Alfons believe he would have responded, had his eyes been opened to the Holocaust sooner?
(a) He would never have been loyal to Hitler.
(b) He would have left the Hitler Youth.
(c) He would have been sick every night, and unable to fight.
(d) It would not have affected his loyalty to Hitler.

4. When Alfons was taken to a high position on the Westwall, what was he told?
(a) They had lost the war.
(b) They were in danger of losing the war, but victory was still possible.
(c) Hitler had died.
(d) They could not stop the Allies at Westwall.

5. If soldiers surrendered to the Americans, what could they expect?
(a) To be brutally tortured.
(b) To be killed.
(c) To stay alive.
(d) To be released quickly.

6. Immediately following the war, how did Alfons feel about his allegiance to Hitler?
(a) He developed tremendous guilt for the millions of people who died.
(b) He was sad they lost the war, but felt no guilt about the millions of people who died.
(c) He didn't care that they lost the war.
(d) He wanted to find Hitler and kill him.

7. As Germany's fate became clear, how did Alfons feel about their defeat?
(a) He was still willing to die obediently.
(b) He was deeply depressed and suicidal.
(c) He was in denial about it.
(d) He accepted it.

8. Who did Alfons realize probably saved his life?
(a) His men.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) The Americans.
(d) A Luftwaffe major.

9. Near the end of Chapter 9, Luftwaffe pilots became so enraged that they did what?
(a) They deserted the Luftwaffe.
(b) They rammed Allied bombers.
(c) Many of them killed themselves.
(d) They engaged in a horrific firestorm in Dresden.

10. Why did many people think the Germans continued to fight in late 1944?
(a) It was an effort to renew their energy and optimism.
(b) They wanted to destroy as many Americans as possible.
(c) To defend themselves.
(d) They deceived themselves into thinking they could win.

11. To where was Alfons sent, instead of to a P.O.W. camp?
(a) Hamburg, to serve as an interpreter.
(b) Home.
(c) To a field hospital to serve as an interpreter.
(d) To the Eastern front.

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

13. When 2 Royal Air Force Spitfires attacked German supply vehicles, how many Hitler Youth boys died?
(a) 2.
(b) 100.
(c) 10.
(d) None.

14. Why did the American soldiers become suspicious?
(a) They found Natzi uniforms buried around Wittlich.
(b) They had been in Wittlich for a month and hadn't met a single Nazi.
(c) There were not very many people left in Wittlich.
(d) The people of Wittlich were obedient to their orders.

15. Why was Alfons's grandmother in distress?
(a) Alfons was not helping his family rebuild.
(b) She had lost everything.
(c) She didn't know the fate of her sons.
(d) Alfons didn't seem to realize the consequences of following Hitler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who eventually occupied Germany and arrested Alfons?

2. What did Leiwitz reveal to Alfons, which he could not believe?

3. Alfons's friend Franz felt that Germany had more in common with the Americans and the British than with whom?

4. What experience caused Alfons to grow sick?

5. Who was the head of the German Labor Front?

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