Unit 1 Study quiz

Which option is an example of a simile?

• It is raining like cats and dogs.

• The rain is a curtain around me.

• The rain washed the car.

• The rain is wet.

What does the word Holocaust mean?

• raining fire

• sacrifice by fire

• fiery furnace

• fireplace

What was the name of the program to kill off all the Jews?

• The Final Countdown

• The Final Equation

• The Final Dance

• The Final Solution

What other groups were victims of the Holocaust?

• the mentally disabled

• Slavics

• Romas (gypsies)

• All of the above

Where did the surviving Jews move to after the war?

• The U. S.

• Other countries

• Options A and B

• None of the above

The Holocaust was the Nazi regimes' persecution and murder of which group of people?

• Jews

• interfaith groups

• German people

• aliens

How many Jews died in the Holocaust?

• 7,000,000

• more than 6,000,000

• 10,000,000

• 5,000,000

Concentration camps were...

• where many Jews were forced to work and eventually killed.

• where Jewish families vacationed in the summer.

• where German families went for vacation.

• where students went to concentrate.

Nonfiction is writing based on

• imagination.

• facts.

• opinions.

• pictures.

Elie Wiesel's book Night is known as which genre of nonfiction?

• novel

• novella

• memoir

• biography