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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Alfons combat his growing desire to be with a woman?
(a) By confiding in his friends about it.
(b) By confiding in his grandmother about it.
(c) He took on extra jobs in order to stay busy.
(d) Through frequent prayer and the confessional.

2. Alfons's childhood friend Heinz Ermann could not join the Hitler Youth. Later, what happened to Heinz's family?
(a) They were gassed at Auschwitz.
(b) They moved to a large city in Germany's industrial heartland, Oberhausen.
(c) They chose to become followers of Hitler.
(d) They moved to the countryside.

3. Which city was attacked four nights in a row, killing a rumored 50,000 people?
(a) Hamburg.
(b) Cologne.
(c) Ruhr.
(d) Wittlich.

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

5. By 1938, which of the following statements about the Gestapo was false?
(a) It was all-powerful.
(b) It could not be controlled by the regular judicial system.
(c) No one respected the Gestapo, and therefore it was not effective.
(d) People obeyed and complied with the Gestapo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was flying when an American enemy aircraft came in on a bomber raid?

2. Which of the following statements about the perception of women in Germany during World War II is false?

3. If Roman were to have disobeyed Alfons's orders, how would Alfons have responded?

4. What was the Gymnasium?

5. Who attacked many of Germany's big cities?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what did Alfons witness happening to the Jewish people in Wittlich?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 3, how did Alfons describe the mindset of the Germans, with regard to war?

3. When the Allies landed at Normandy, how did the German people react?

4. What do you think most German people would have predicted about the war at this time? Were they confident or anxious?

5. At only 16 years old, what had Alfons already achieved?

6. What was Alfons's relationship with Rabbit?

7. Once Alfons was made Manfred's successor, what orders followed?

8. What did Alfons recall about Kristallnacht?

9. What was Alfons's relationship with Hanna?

10. What was the general attitude of the Hitler Youth, as described in Chapter 2?

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