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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 was Hitler's final, all-out attack on U.S. troops in the Ardennes Forest called?
(a) The Battle of the Alamo.
(b) The Battle of Geronimo.
(c) The Battle of the Bulge.
(d) The Battle of the West Wall.

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

3. What was the West Wall known to Americans as?
(a) The Blum Line.
(b) The Mansfeld Line.
(c) The Waldorff Line.
(d) The Siegfried Line.

4. Where did Alfons Heck's parents and twin brother live in early 1943?
(a) Oberhausen.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Paris.
(d) Frankfurt.

5. Where did Hans Leiwitz observe the murder of 30,000 Jewish women, children, and old men as the SS machine-gunned them into a ravine?
(a) London.
(b) Babi Yar.
(c) Voslvek.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what date in 1945 did German troops begin blowing up bridges across the Rhine for defense?

3. How many homes were totally destroyed in Wittlich during the air attack on Christmas Eve, 1944?

4. Where was Alfons ordered to report in order to be sworn in as a Fahnrich with the Luftwaffe?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Colonel Count von Stauffenberg and why were his actions important?

2. When was the crematoria at Auschwitz destroyed? Why?

3. When did the Allies break through the German West Wall? What did this signify?

4. Who was Rabbit and how did Alfons come to know him?

5. What was the Volkssturm? What were its strengths and weaknesses?

6. Who was Josef Mengele and what was his role in the Holocaust?

7. What led to the evacuation of German children to remote areas of Germany in 1943?

8. When and why did the Germans begin bombing the bridges over the Rhine?

9. How is Helen's reunion with Doris described?

10. Why was Alfons dispatched to Spang?

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