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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was author Kurt Vonnegut held as a prisoner of war during WWII?
(a) Dresden.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Kassel.
(d) Frankfurt.

2. Who was Helen's neighbor that reacted with outrage when she learned that Helen and Siegfried gave up Doris?
(a) Mrs. Safir.
(b) Mrs. Anderson.
(c) Mrs. Smith.
(d) Mrs. Crenshaw.

3. How many of the 140,000 Jews living in Holland went into hiding after the Germans invaded?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 10,000.

4. Who was Alfons's aunt that burned his Hitler Youth uniform as the Americans pressed into Wittlich?
(a) Helen.
(b) Tilly.
(c) Helga.
(d) Anna.

5. Who stayed in Wittlich to burn all the papers of Bann 244 Wittlich?
(a) Monika Mohn.
(b) Anton Blum.
(c) Ernst von Rath.
(d) Josef Goebbels.

6. When did the German officer leading the attack on the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw declare "Warsaw's Jewish district is no more" (100)?
(a) October 22, 1942.
(b) May 14, 1940.
(c) May 16, 1943.
(d) April 13, 1943.

7. On what date did Hitler's final, all-out attack on U.S. troops take place in the Ardennes Forest of Luxembourg?
(a) October 22, 1942.
(b) December 15, 1944.
(c) April 13, 1943.
(d) July 20, 1944.

8. How many boys was Alfons Heck in charge of when he was promoted to the rank of Unterbannfuhrer?
(a) 500.
(b) 2,800.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 4,400.

9. What was Albert Speer's position when Alfons met him?
(a) Minister of Finance.
(b) Minister of International Relations.
(c) Minister of Death Camps.
(d) Minister of Armaments and Ammunitions.

10. Kratzau was the name that the Germans had given to what Czechoslovakina village?
(a) Habartov.
(b) Ivancee.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Chrastava.

11. Who did Hitler marry before his death?
(a) Anna Blum.
(b) Edna Himmler.
(c) Eva Braun.
(d) Helen von Rath.

12. How far is Bitburg from Wittlich?
(a) 65 miles.
(b) 100 miles.
(c) 40 miles.
(d) 25 miles.

13. Where was Alfons ordered to report in order to be sworn in as a Fahnrich with the Luftwaffe?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Frankfurt.
(c) Kassel.
(d) Spang.

14. On what date did the exterminations at Auschwitz halt?
(a) July 20, 1944.
(b) October 22, 1942.
(c) April 13, 1943.
(d) November 28, 1944.

15. When did Hitler order the West Wall to be built?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1930.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many German children were relocated to safer areas of the Reich under the KLV program?

2. Where did all the mothers with children go upon arriving at the camp, as described by Helen in Chapter 14?

3. When did Russian soldiers liberate the camp at Theresienstadt?

4. Along with how many other women did Helen work at a factory in Kratzau?

5. How many Bannfuhrers were there in Germany when Alfons was granted this title?

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