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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. What does the memorial Yad Vashem mean?
(a) Avenue of the Wretched.
(b) Avenue of the Righteous.
(c) Avenue of the Soldiers.
(d) Avenue of Poverty.

2. Where was Helen Waterford's father from?
(a) Germany.
(b) Lithuania.
(c) Austria.
(d) France.

3. What does "Sieg Heil" translate to in English?
(a) Hail to the Fatherland.
(b) Hail to the Chief.
(c) Hail to Victory.
(d) Hail to God.

4. Who was the head of the SS in Nazi Germany?
(a) Anton Blum.
(b) Reinhard Heydrich.
(c) Heinrich Himmler.
(d) Ernst von Rath.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By the end of 1938, what was the approximate membership of the Hitler Youth?

2. Who was the Nazi Minister of Propaganda?

3. How many synagogues were there in Frankfurt that were destoryed during Kristallnacht?

4. When did the Nazis invade Poland?

5. When did Hitler give a speech to his top staff establishing his plans to invade Russia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the fortune teller tell Helen? How did her premonition play out?

2. What was the Hitler Youth? Why was it important?

3. How did Helen and Siegfried manage to delay being taken by the Nazis in Amsterdam?

4. How did the Hitler Youth organization change in 1939?

5. What happened to Helen Waterford's family during the time of Kristallnacht?

6. What was the Luftwaffe? When was it formed? Who headed it?

7. Who was Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and what role did he play in World War II?

8. What led to Siegfried losing his job? What were his circumstances like after this?

9. When did Germany attack Holland? How did this play out?

10. How did Helen's family gain entrance into the United States? When did this occur?

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