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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. 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) Paris.
(b) Voslvek.
(c) Babi Yar.
(d) London.

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

3. When in 1945 were all German teenage boys 15 and older ordered to the front lines?
(a) March 3.
(b) April 20.
(c) May 5.
(d) June 3.

4. The rank of Unterbannfuhrer is equal to what ranke in the U.S. army?
(a) Commander in Chief.
(b) Major.
(c) Colonel.
(d) Brigadier general.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the nice looking officer who inspected Helen when she arrived at the concentration camp in Chapter 14?

2. When did the German officer leading the attack on the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw declare "Warsaw's Jewish district is no more" (100)?

3. How many people were killed by the bomb that Colonel Count von Stauffenberg planted in Hitler's headquarters?

4. Who did Hitler marry before his death?

5. What book did Kurt Vonnegut write about his experiences as a prisoner of war and the American air raids?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why was Alfons dispatched to Spang?

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

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