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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the Nazis allow people to be privately devoted to their personal convictions?
(a) Because it was easier for the police.
(b) Because it damaged the Church.
(c) Because they could not monitor everyone.
(d) Because it was busy with the war.

2. Who helped Jagerstatter find a lawyer?
(a) His village priest.
(b) His wife.
(c) A friend.
(d) His mother.

3. When did Jagerstatter have the dream included in "On the Question of Our Day: Catholic or Nazi?"
(a) 1938.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1939.

4. Who came to visit Jagerstatter with a priest?
(a) His wife.
(b) His daughter.
(c) His mother.
(d) The pope.

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

6. What was Jagerstatter's sentence?
(a) Life in prison.
(b) 55000 ReichMarks fine.
(c) Death.
(d) 50 cane stokes.

7. Who did Jagerstatter's lawyer ask for help in convincing Jagerstatter to change his mind?
(a) The judge.
(b) The prison's chaplain.
(c) His wife.
(d) His best friend.

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

9. 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 not a voluntary recruit.
(c) Because he was Catholic.
(d) Because he was a farmer.

10. What was the Nazi Party long opposed to according to Jagerstatter ?
(a) Communism.
(b) Freedom.
(c) The Church.
(d) British sea empire.

11. What reason did the prison chaplain give to Jagerstatter to try to convince him to accept a position in the millitary?
(a) That his mother would die if he was go go to war.
(b) That his family would be persecuted if he was to go through with it.
(c) That his family would need him after the war.
(d) That men like him would be needed after the Nazi regime falls.

12. What did Jagerstatter admire about his cousin's faith?
(a) Its community.
(b) Its mass.
(c) Its dress code.
(d) Its opposition to war on principle.

13. Why wasn't rejecting the Nazi Party an automatic death sentence?
(a) There were loopholes in the law.
(b) The judges were easily bribed.
(c) The Nazis were trying to win opposition over.
(d) The firing squads were not sharp shooters.

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

15. What did Zahn take as an indication of the fact that there might have been more animosity between Mrs. Jagerstatter and the villagers than people are inclined to remember?
(a) She used pictures of the inhabitants of the village for target practice.
(b) She cried during the interview.
(c) She didn't allow any of the inhabitants of the village on her property.
(d) She called the inhabitants by their first name.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What types of weapons did Jagerstatter prophesy?

3. What was the name of the chaplain whose memoir Zahn used?

4. What faith did Jagerstatter's cousin belong to?

5. What did Jagerstatter write prior to his imprisonment?

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