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

2. What news did Alfons hear on the radio?
(a) Hitler had stepped down.
(b) Hitler had chosen Admiral Karl Doenitz to replace him.
(c) Hitler had committed suicide.
(d) Hitler had been murdered.

3. At the beginning of Chapter 10, to where did Alfons return?
(a) The Eastern Front.
(b) Wittlich.
(c) The Luftwaffe.
(d) The Westwall.

4. What did Alfons do when over a dozen Sherman tanks arrived in Wittlich?
(a) He angrily stormed toward the tanks, demanding they leave Wittlich.
(b) He successfully escaped.
(c) Wearing his Luftwaffe uniform, he left the house prepared to die for Germany.
(d) He changed into a pair of coveralls, and buried his Luftwaffe uniform.

5. What significant event in the life of Alfons's family occurred on Christmas?
(a) They all died, following an Allied bomber raid in Wittlich.
(b) Alfons chose loyalty to the Natzis over loyalty to his family.
(c) His grandmother died.
(d) They had to be dug out of a pile of rubble following a massive Allied bomber raid.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What disappointing news did Alfons receive from Dr. Robert Ley?

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

4. Which of the following points of view was not shared by Alfons at the end of the book?

5. Which of the following statements about Monika Mohn is false?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the difference between the way the Americans treated prisoners of war, and the way they were treated along the Eastern front?

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

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

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

7. When Alfons arrived home, what measures were taken to ensure the Americans wouldn't know he was an officer?

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

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

10. What occurred while Alfons was with his family for Christmas?

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