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

2. How many people were at the camp at Plzen when Helen and Becky arrived?
(a) 200.
(b) 500.
(c) 400.
(d) 300.

3. Where was Alfons ordered to report in order to be sworn in as a Fahnrich with the Luftwaffe?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Spang.
(c) Kassel.
(d) Frankfurt.

4. Where was Juro's and daughter sent after apprehension when returning to Amsterdam?
(a) Sobibar.
(b) Birkenau.
(c) Katzkau.
(d) Auschwitz.

5. What number was tattooed on Helen's left forearm at the camp?
(a) C35632.
(b) B46325.
(c) A6345.
(d) A25254.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many German soldiers came out when the Americans demanded their surrender in Wittlich?

2. How many of the 140,000 Jews living in Holland went into hiding after the Germans invaded?

3. To what concentration camp was Jo Vis sent after being caught for harboring an enemy of the Reich?

4. On what date did Adolf Hitler die?

5. Where did Alfons Heck's parents and twin brother live in early 1943?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Operation Overlord and when was it launched?

4. What were Alfons's perceptions of the Holocaust immediately after the end of the war?

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

6. What happened to women with children upon arriving at Auschwitz? Why?

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

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

9. Who was Albert Speer and what was his position in the Nazi regime?

10. How was Alfons treated by the Americans when they arrived in Wittlich?

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