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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. Near the end of Chapter 9, Luftwaffe pilots became so enraged that they did what?
(a) They rammed Allied bombers.
(b) They engaged in a horrific firestorm in Dresden.
(c) Many of them killed themselves.
(d) They deserted the Luftwaffe.

2. What did Leiwitz reveal to Alfons, which he could not believe?
(a) Every day they were killing tens of thousands of Jews in Poland and Russia.
(b) Germany was losing the war.
(c) Alfons was no longer needed, and should go home.
(d) Hitler had died.

3. Which of the following statements about Monika Mohn is false?
(a) She was the final member of Bann 244.
(b) Alfons hid her in her father's shooting hut.
(c) When Alfons met her, she was burning documents.
(d) She was Wendt's secretary.

4. What were the men in short supply of?
(a) Food.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Clothing.

5. Alfons's friend Franz felt that Germany had more in common with the Americans and the British than with whom?
(a) The French.
(b) The Japanese.
(c) The Bolsheviks.
(d) The Italians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Leiwitz encourage Alfons not to do?

2. What did Dr. Robert Ley communicate when he visited Alfons's men?

3. When Alfons and his fellow Hitler Youth leaders met Hitler, what did he tell them?

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

5. Immediately following the war, how did Alfons feel about his allegiance to Hitler?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 7, what promotion did Alfons receive, and why?

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

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

4. What did Alfons learn from fighting the Americans?

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

6. When Alfons arrived home, what measures were taken to ensure the Americans wouldn't know he was an officer?

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

8. Explain Alfons's encounter with a major, whose name he could not remember, but who probably saved his life.

9. How did the Americans discover that Alfons could speak English, and what was their reaction to this information?

10. What happened to Alfons when the French arrived to occupy Germany?

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