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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. Alfons usually served mass while wearing what?
(a) His full uniform, including belt and dagger, beneath his altar boy robes.
(b) His full uniform beneath his altar boy robes, but without his dagger.
(c) His full uniform, belt and dagger.
(d) His altar boy robes.

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

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

4. The Soviet Forces pushed the Nazis deep into where?
(a) Hungary.
(b) France.
(c) Poland.
(d) The Ukraine.

5. Which of the following statements about the fanfare and drum platoon is false?
(a) They practiced intensely and regularly.
(b) They marched on Sunday mornings.
(c) Alfons was never involved in these activities.
(d) They were awful musicians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was true about the children of Germany in the 1930s?

2. During the Easter vacation of 1944, what was Alfons ordered to do?

3. Which of the following statements about Alfons and Gert's relationship is false?

4. As the war began, the unease held by the German people disappeared with the success of what?

5. How did Hitler perceive the Hitler Youth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Major General Adolf Galland, and what did he say to the future Luftwaffe pilots?

2. In Chapter 1, what positive effects of Hitler's leadership did Alfons recall?

3. When Hitler attacked Poland, how did the German people feel about the possibility of war?

4. What influence did Alfons' teacher, Herr Becker, have on him at a young age?

5. Describe Alfons's early days with the Flying Hitler Youth.

6. How did Alfons handle his responsibilities as a unit leader?

7. At the end of Chapter 5, what important goal did Alfons achieve?

8. When the Allies landed at Normandy, how did the German people react?

9. Describe George, the farmhand.

10. At an early age, what was Alfons conditioned to believe about the Jewish people?

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