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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. Over the course of the ensuing battles, what became clear to Alfons?
(a) They were going to win.
(b) They were all going to die.
(c) Wittlich would not be conquered.
(d) They were going to lose.

2. When Hitler launched Germany's last major offensive in World War II, what was his objective?
(a) To stabilize the Eastern front.
(b) To stabilize the alliance between American, Britain and the USSR.
(c) To split America and Britain from the ultra-Marxist USSR.
(d) To split the alliance between America and Britain.

3. What did Alfons learn from fighting the Americans?
(a) The Americans response to German action was easily matched.
(b) The Americans were not very humane.
(c) Many of the Americans were just as brave as the Germans.
(d) Most of the Americans were not as brave as the Germans.

4. What task was given to Alfons by the Americans?
(a) Find any remaining Hitler Youth and bring them out of hiding.
(b) Teach them how to speak German.
(c) Wash their clothes and dishes.
(d) Read American instructions to his townspeople in Germany.

5. When a soldier stopped Alfons to ask him a question, how did Alfons respond to him?
(a) In English.
(b) He surrendered to the soldier.
(c) He refused to speak to him.
(d) In German.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the men in short supply of?

2. At the end of the War, what were the Soviets known for?

3. Why was Alfons's grandmother in distress?

4. What did Alfons do when over a dozen Sherman tanks arrived in Wittlich?

5. What occurred as a result of the Battle of the Bulge?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to Alfons when the French arrived to occupy Germany?

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

4. Explain Alfons's encounter with a major, whose name he could not remember, but who probably saved his life.

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

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

7. What did Alfons share about his departing words with Leiwitz?

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

9. Who was Monika Mohn, and what did she say to Alfons?

10. How did Alfons describe the sentence he received, and the work orders from the French?

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