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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zahn say might have been detrimental to his research?
(a) Articles in the local newspapers.
(b) Talking to Jagerstatter's wife.
(c) Being Catholic.
(d) Being American.

2. What did the author use the writing of Jagerstatter prior to his imprisonment for?
(a) To study his psychological changes.
(b) To Jagerstatter's theological ideals.
(c) To study his writing style.
(d) To his psychosis.

3. What did Jagerstatter's lawyer have no inkling of according to his interview with Zahn?
(a) Jagerstatter's family money.
(b) Jagerstatter's lack of money.
(c) Jagerstatter's willingness to die.
(d) Jagerstatter's religious endeavors.

4. What monument includes the name of Jagerstatter?
(a) A monument erected to the memory of anti-Nazis.
(b) A monument erected to war resistance.
(c) A monument erected to the memory of those killed in the war.
(d) A monument erected to celebrate Catholic victims of the war.

5. What point did Jagerstatter make about how the Nazi party would regard him even if he was to accept to join the military?
(a) Because he voiced his opinion.
(b) Because he was Catholic.
(c) Because he was not a voluntary recruit.
(d) Because he was a farmer.

6. What did the court official plead with Jagerstatter to accept?
(a) A fine.
(b) To accept a non-combat position.
(c) Time in prison.
(d) A new lawyer.

7. Where was Jagerstatter moved to prior to his death?
(a) Ermstberg.
(b) Brandenburg.
(c) Enns.
(d) Berlin.

8. When was Jagerstatter moved last before his death?
(a) July 29, 1944.
(b) July 3, 1943.
(c) May 14, 1943.
(d) July 14, 1943.

9. What did the majority of the people in Jagerstatter 's village think he should have done?
(a) Defect to Russia.
(b) Join the military.
(c) Bribe the judges.
(d) Hide.

10. What did Jagerstatter tell the court official in response to their pleas?
(a) He accepted the fine.
(b) He refused to have a new lawyer.
(c) He refused their offer.
(d) To pray for him.

11. What types of weapons did Jagerstatter prophesy?
(a) Weapons that would be sent into space.
(b) Weapons that could smash the entire world into ruins.
(c) Weapons that could defeat the Nazis.
(d) Weapons that would be manufactured by women.

12. Who did Jagerstatter's farewell letter transferred by?
(a) The prison priest.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Nazi propaganda.
(d) Prison authorities.

13. Who was present during Jagerstatter last visit beside his visitors?
(a) His lawyer.
(b) Armed guards.
(c) The judge.
(d) An undertaker.

14. What was the name of the chaplain whose memoir Zahn used?
(a) Father Bernhard Kunza.
(b) Father Mitberg.
(c) Father Kramer.
(d) Father Yumstann.

15. What type of organization likely had no contact with Jagerstatter ?
(a) Communism.
(b) Organized Nazi resistance.
(c) Farming union.
(d) American envoys.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Jagerstatter able to receive letters in his Berlin prison?

2. Who did Jagerstatter tell his wife not to think evil of?

3. When did Jagerstatter appear in court for his trial?

4. What was the name of the priest that came to see Jagerstatter in prison?

5. What did the train in Jagerstatter's dream represent?

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