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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many boys was Alfons Heck to oversee as Sharfuhrer when he was promoted to this position?
(a) 50.
(b) 40.
(c) 200.
(d) 1,000.

2. How old was Doris when Helen and Siegfried decided to go into hiding and to send her away?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

3. What did Alfons Heck's grandmother want him to be when he grew up?
(a) A priest.
(b) A pilot.
(c) A policeman.
(d) An army officer.

4. What American pilot made several trips to tour the Luftwaffe and became friends with Hermann Göring?
(a) Manfred von Richthofen.
(b) Anton Blum.
(c) Heinrich Himmler.
(d) Charles Lindbergh.

5. How old did Hitler turn on his birthday in 1938?
(a) 32.
(b) 49.
(c) 51.
(d) 42.

6. What did Helen do in order to buy her and her husband some time before they had to face resettlement to the east?
(a) She had her father issue a visa to the United States.
(b) She had a banker initiate court proceedings regarding a civil matter.
(c) She had a doctor perform an appendectomy on Siegfried.
(d) She had a docter produce false pregnancy results.

7. On what date was Siegfried's mother buried?
(a) December 7, 1941.
(b) December 18, 1940.
(c) June 22, 1941.
(d) October 6, 1939.

8. When did Germany announce an end to fighting in Russia?
(a) February 3, 1943.
(b) June 14, 1940.
(c) October 22, 1942.
(d) October 6, 1939.

9. What agreement ended World War I?
(a) The Congress of Vienna.
(b) The Peace of Westphalia.
(c) The Treaty of Tordesillas.
(d) The Treaty of Versailles.

10. How many men did Erwin Rommel lose to death, injury, or disappearance when they were defeated by the British in early 1942?
(a) 38,000.
(b) 16,000.
(c) 23,000.
(d) 43,000.

11. Over how many books with messages said to be threatening to the Third Reich were burned in May of 1933 at the book-burning in Berlin?
(a) About 70,000.
(b) About 20,000.
(c) About 40,000.
(d) About 100,000.

12. When did Germany invade Sudetenland?
(a) September 3, 1939.
(b) November 9, 1938.
(c) October 1, 1938.
(d) September 1, 1939.

13. What word in German refers to lower-class citizens, as used by the Nazis?
(a) Luftwaffe.
(b) Untermenschen.
(c) Hitlerjugend.
(d) Blitzkrieg.

14. When was Adolf Eichmann finally discovered after the end of World War II?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1972.

15. Who was the local carpenter and SS member that led the biggest troop of military in the night of broken glass in Wittlich?
(a) Paul Wolff.
(b) Anton Blum.
(c) Ernst von Rath.
(d) Reinhard Heydrich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Alfons Heck's first teacher in school?

2. What does the word "blitzkrieg" translate to in English?

3. When did the Nazis invade Poland?

4. When did Great Britain declare war on Nazi Germany?

5. What was the name of Alfons Heck's twin brother?

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