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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. What did Leiwitz encourage Alfons not to do?
(a) Not to retreat with his men.
(b) Not to die for Nazi Germany if he could avoid it.
(c) Not to tell anyone what he had shared with him in private.
(d) Not to become intimidated by current conditions.

2. What did Alfons do when over a dozen Sherman tanks arrived in Wittlich?
(a) He angrily stormed toward the tanks, demanding they leave Wittlich.
(b) Wearing his Luftwaffe uniform, he left the house prepared to die for Germany.
(c) He successfully escaped.
(d) He changed into a pair of coveralls, and buried his Luftwaffe uniform.

3. When one of Alfons's men deserted, how did Alfons respond?
(a) Although he was authorized to shoot him, he didn't have the will to do so.
(b) He shot him.
(c) He had pity on him.
(d) He pretended not to notice, because he didn't want to shoot him.

4. How did Alfons spend Christmas in 1944?
(a) Alone.
(b) In the hospital.
(c) With his family.
(d) With his men.

5. What disappointing news did Alfons receive from Dr. Robert Ley?
(a) He would not be able to join the Luftwaffe.
(b) He was being fired, and sent home.
(c) He was being demoted.
(d) His Uncle Gustav was reported dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. When it was announced that Alfons and a group of Nazis would be executed, how did Alfons respond?

2. With whom did Alfons reunite at the end of Chapter 11?

3. Which of the following people did not survive the War?

4. When 2 Royal Air Force Spitfires attacked German supply vehicles, how many Hitler Youth boys died?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 10, to where did Alfons return?

Short Essay Questions

1. Initially following the war, describe Alfons's feelings about the outcome of the war, his allegiance to Hitler, and the millions of people who were killed.

2. How did Alfons describe the sentence he received, and the work orders from the French?

3. What happened when over half of the People's Army disappeared?

4. Alfons's men were not enthusiastic about their new orders, but what were the repercussions if they deserted their unit?

5. What occurred while Alfons was with his family for Christmas?

6. What did Franz believe about the Bolsheviks, the Americans, and the British?

7. When the Soviet offensive broke loose along the Eastern front and Warsaw fell, what were the effects felt by the German soldiers?

8. What was the difference between the way the Americans treated prisoners of war, and the way they were treated along the Eastern front?

9. Describe Germany's attitude toward the war by late 1944, when many people felt they should not continue to fight.

10. Describe the difference between how Alfons felt about Germany during the Hitler years,and how he felt about those same experiences many years later?

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