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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. Which of the following statements about Hanna is false?
(a) She disliked Alfons, and would not speak to him.
(b) She never told Alfons she loved him.
(c) One day when they were alone she pulled him off to the tool shed.
(d) She often taunted Alfons with her attractive figure.

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

3. Which of the following was true about the children of Germany in the 1930s?
(a) They were scared of Hitler and the Hitler Youth.
(b) They were not required to follow Hitler if they don't want to.
(c) They were eager to join the Hitler Youth, for its action and glamor.
(d) They hoped it would not be required that they join the Hitler Youth.

4. Where was Alfons Heck born?
(a) Wittlich, Germany.
(b) France.
(c) America.
(d) Oberhausen, Germany.

5. Which of the following was true about the Hitler Youth?
(a) They were not allowed to participate in the Nuremburg Party Congress.
(b) They were frightened by Hitler and unsure of his rule over Germany.
(c) They were the most fanatical Nazi organization.
(d) They were not eager to hear Hitler speak at the Nuremburg Party Congress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements best describes Alfons's leadership over his unit?

2. Where was the entire 6th Army decimated?

3. Which of the following statements was true about Alfons's grandmother at the start of the war?

4. Why did the Jews become increasingly emotional?

5. The Nuremburg Party Congress was a week-long celebration of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the Nazis successful in singling out the Jews?

2. In Chapter 5, what did Alfons recall about the American and British attacks on Germany?

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

4. How did Alfons feel about the possibility of fighting in the war?

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

6. At the beginning of Chapter 3, how did Alfons describe the mindset of the Germans, with regard to war?

7. How did Alfons feel when Gert was promoted a step ahead of him?

8. What did Alfons recall about the Nuremburg Party Congress?

9. What happened when an American enemy aircraft attacked while Rabbit was flying?

10. In Chapter 1, what did Alfons share about his family?

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