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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 were the three things that a German woman's life should be focused on, according to popular belief in the 1940s?
(a) Church, children, and kitchen.
(b) Propriety, generosity, and kindness.
(c) Love, marriage, and the household.
(d) Power, wealth, and business.

2. Who was Doris's foster mother for the three years while Helen was captured?
(a) Eva Blum.
(b) Anna von Rath.
(c) Stein DeBoer.
(d) Sarah Himmler.

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

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

5. Who did Alfons Heck promote to be his second in command after he was promoted to the position of Gefolgschaftsfuher?
(a) Anton Blum.
(b) Reinhard Heydrich.
(c) Ernst von Rath.
(d) Roman Follman.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Adolf Hitler die?

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

3. How many apartments were there in the ghetto of Warsaw after the Nazis overtook Poland in 1939?

4. Who was the large Hungarian woman that was the KAPO of Helen's barrack at Kratzau?

5. The rank of Unterbannfuhrer is equal to what ranke in the U.S. army?

Short Essay Questions

1. When was Alfons appointed Gefolgschaftsfuhrer? What did this mean?

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

3. What was the aftermath of the revolt in the Warsaw ghetto?

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

5. What is the equivalent of a Bahnfuhrer in the U.S. military? What did being appointed this position mean for Alfons?

6. How did Helen manage to return to Amsterdam after the war?

7. Who led the revolt in the Warsaw ghetto? When did this take place?

8. How was Alfons treated by the French when they arrived to occupy Germany?

9. What did Helen do when she was liberated from Kratzau?

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

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