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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. The drive west failed due to what?
(a) The fall of Warsaw.
(b) Lack of direction.
(c) Fuel shortages and pulverized supply lines.
(d) Alfons' poor leadership.

2. How did Alfons spend Christmas in 1944?
(a) Alone.
(b) With his men.
(c) In the hospital.
(d) With his family.

3. With whom did Alfons reunite at the end of Chapter 11?
(a) His Uncle Gustav.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) Monika Mohn.
(d) His parents.

4. What did Leiwitz reveal to Alfons, which he could not believe?
(a) Germany was losing the war.
(b) Alfons was no longer needed, and should go home.
(c) Every day they were killing tens of thousands of Jews in Poland and Russia.
(d) Hitler had died.

5. Along the Eastern Front, what did many men do to avoid being caught alive?
(a) They surrendered.
(b) They retreated.
(c) They committed suicide.
(d) They faked their deaths.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Alfons later learn about Leiwitz?

2. To where was Alfons sent, instead of to a P.O.W. camp?

3. Rather than shoot a hostage, what did the French do with Alfons?

4. Which of the following people did not survive the War?

5. When some of the boys tried to desert the unit, how did Alfons respond?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Germany's attitude toward the war by late 1944, when many people felt they should not continue to fight.

2. Describe the difference between how Alfons felt about Germany during the Hitler years,and how he felt about those same experiences many years later?

3. What was the purpose of Dr. Robert Ley's visit?

4. What was Alfons's assignment following his orders to retreat from the Westwall?

5. When did Alfons meet Hitler and observe that he looked older and frail?

6. What did Hitler mean when he told the Hitler Youth leaders that the Hitler Youth was his "purest creation"?

7. When the Soviet offensive broke loose along the Eastern front and Warsaw fell, what were the effects felt by the German soldiers?

8. What did Franz believe about the Bolsheviks, the Americans, and the British?

9. Initially following the war, describe Alfons's feelings about the outcome of the war, his allegiance to Hitler, and the millions of people who were killed.

10. How was Alfons finally discovered as a German officer?

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