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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon arriving in Remisch, what did Alfons immediately ask of his commanding officer?
(a) For a school and a convent to house his men.
(b) For time off.
(c) For a larger paycheck.
(d) For a different assignment.

2. Which of the following people was not a member of Alfons's family?
(a) Maria.
(b) George.
(c) Franz.
(d) Gustav.

3. Which of the following is not a memory Alfons holds from his childhood?
(a) His parents moved away to a large city in Germany's industrial heartland.
(b) Nazi troops wearing brown shirts marched through the town of Wittlich.
(c) His parents died.
(d) His teacher deliberately discriminated against the Jews in the classroom.

4. Where was the entire 6th Army decimated?
(a) Wittlich.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Stalingrad.
(d) Egypt.

5. What occurred on Kristallnacht?
(a) The police intervened when young Natzis destroyed Jewish businesses.
(b) Hitler declared that Jews must close their businesses.
(c) The SA and SS smashed the windows of Jewish businesses and stormed Jewish synagogues.
(d) The concentration camps began.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was made Manfred's successor?

2. In the 1930s, what were the children of Germany conditioned to believe?

3. What did Alfons learn from fighting the Americans?

4. How did Hitler perceive the Hitler Youth?

5. In September of 1944, what order followed the "people's storm"?

(see the answer key)

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