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What connotation does the word "Holocaust" have?

• happiness

• voluntary sacrifice

• connection to Jewish history

• war

What does the word "Holocaust" mean?

• catastrophe

• Biblical destruction

• complete burning

• religious tragedy

What does the word "Shoah" mean

• religious offering

• catastrophe

• complete destruction

• religious tragedy

What does the word "Churbn" mean?

• complete destruction

• voluntary offering

• destruction of the Temple

• religious sacrifice

What connotation does the word "Churbn" have?

• small tragedy

• religious offering

• voluntary sacrifice

• national tragedy

Which historical event was the term "Holocaust" first applied to?

• the Shoah

• the Armenian genocide

• the genocide in the Balkans

• the displacement of Palestinians

The Armenian genocide was committed by the __________ in _______________

• Christians, 1942

• Russians, 1918

• Ottomans, 1948

• Turks, 1915

The term "Genocide" stems from the ___________ word "genos" which means ________________

• Greek, sacrifice

• Latin, tribe

• Greek, family

• Hebrew, burning

Which of the following terms was coined by Raphael Lemkin?

• holocaust

• shoah

• catastrophe

• genocide

Lemkin was a ______________, _____________ _______________

• Polish, Jewish lawyer

• Polish, Jewish doctor

• German, Jewish social leader

• Russian, Christian priest