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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 Soldiers.
(b) Avenue of the Wretched.
(c) Avenue of Poverty.
(d) Avenue of the Righteous.

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

3. On what date was Poland defeated by Nazi Germany?
(a) September 3, 1939.
(b) May 14, 1940.
(c) June 14, 1940.
(d) October 6, 1939.

4. When did Hitler give a speech to his top staff establishing his plans to invade Russia?
(a) December 18, 1940.
(b) June 22, 1941.
(c) December 7, 1941.
(d) October 6, 1939.

5. On what date did Helen and Siegfried give over Doris to the couple that would raise her?
(a) June 14, 1940.
(b) October 22, 1942.
(c) December 18, 1940.
(d) October 6, 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date was Siegfried's mother buried?

2. When did the Nazis invade Poland?

3. How old was Doris when Helen and Siegfried decided to go into hiding and to send her away?

4. Where did Helen Waterford's parents travel to marry?

5. Who was Alfons Heck's biggest rival while in pilot training?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What were Alfons's perceptions of Auschwitz after the Jews in Wittlich were taken away?

4. Who was Adolf Hitler? How and when did he come to power?

5. How old was Alfons Heck when he joined the Hitler Youth? How did he feel about the organization?

6. How was Heinrich Himmler involved in Kristallnacht?

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

8. What were Alfons's experiences like at the Nuremberg Party Congress, Reichsparteitag?

9. When did the Nazis invade Russia? How did this attack play out?

10. What was the SS? When was it formed? What were its objectives?

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