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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. How many American servicemen were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor?
(a) 1,353.
(b) 2,334.
(c) 3,756.
(d) 2,945.

2. In what city was Helen Waterford born?
(a) Hamburg.
(b) Munich.
(c) Offenbach.
(d) Berlin.

3. What did Alfons Heck call his first Latin teacher?
(a) The wizard.
(b) The king.
(c) The cuckoo.
(d) The dragon.

4. 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) Ernst von Rath.
(c) Anton Blum.
(d) Reinhard Heydrich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hitler issue the "Night and Fog Degree"?

2. Where did Heinz Ermann go to stay with his Uncle Herbert when persecution of Jews began to become more serious?

3. How large was the force of Nazi soldiers that Hitler sent to invade Poland?

4. What was the name of Alfons Heck's father?

5. How many Nazi soldiers fighting in the Russian campaign came home of the 300,000 sent?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Alfons believe the years between 1942 and 1944 were the best of his life?

2. Where did Helen Waterford grow up? Why did she go to the Netherlands?

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

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

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

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

7. What were Helen and Siegfried's lives like in Amsterdam during the time before the Nazis invaded?

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

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

10. Who was Adolf Eichmann and what was his role in the Third Reich?

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