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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue, The Aftermath.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way did Alfons's elementary school teacher, Herr Becker, deliberately discriminate against the Jews in his classroom?
(a) He did not allow them to eat their lunch.
(b) He ignored them.
(c) He made them sit in the corner.
(d) He made them wash the floors.

2. What did one glance into the sky tell Alfons and the future Luftwaffe pilots?
(a) They were badly needed and thinly spread.
(b) They had been poorly trained.
(c) They were not needed.
(d) There were more than enough pilots available to meet the need.

3. Who was Hanna?
(a) The 18-year-old sister of his good friend.
(b) An 18-year-old girl who Alfons' met through a friend.
(c) An 18-year-old farmhand, hired by Alfons's grandmother.
(d) An 18-year-old girl in the Hitler Youth.

4. Why did the Allied bombings never shake the morale of the German people?
(a) The radio and newspapers said it was almost over.
(b) They thought they would give up eventually.
(c) Few people believed the Allied forces would dare to approach them on land.
(d) They knew they had a strong plan in place to retaliate.

5. Hitler refused his commanders' pleas to fall back, and when they finally prevailed, what had happened?
(a) Tens of thousands of irreplaceable men had died.
(b) The Germans had lost many men, while the Allies had very few casualties.
(c) Although some men had died, they managed to protect their armored vehicles.
(d) Hundreds of irreplaceable men died.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following people were allowed to join the Jungvolk, the Hitler Youth's junior branch?

2. The winter of 1939-40 is referred to as what?

3. At what age did basic training begin for membership in the army of the Third Reich?

4. To whom did Alfons reveal that he was a German officer?

5. The drive west failed due to what?

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