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The Holocaust

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the effect of the Nuremberg laws on Jews living in Germany? 
a)
Jews were forced to marry non-Jews.
b)
Jews were ordered to adopt German sounding names.
c)
Jews were granted equal rights and freedom from persecution.
d)
Jews were stripped of their German citizenship and right to vote
2.
Blond haired, blue-eyed people typified the Nazi ideal of the “master race.”  What were these people called? 
a)
Slavic
b)
Roman
c)
Aryan
d)
Latino
3.
Which of the following best describes the “final solution?” 
a)
The implementation of the Balfour Declaration.
b)
The Nazi desire for complete destruction of the Jews.
c)
The conscription of German males into the military.
d)
The Jewish desire for a homeland within Germany.
4.
By the end of the Holocaust, over __________ Jews had been killed? 
a)
2 Million
b)
4 Million
c)
6 Million
d)
8 Million
5.
The infamous doctor at Auschwitz, the "Angel of Death"
a)
Adolf Hitler
b)
Artur Axmann
c)
Josef Berchtold
d)
Joseph Mengele
6.

Which term means prejudice against or hostility towards Jews?

a)

Semitism

b)

Anti-semitism

c)

Genocide

d)

Holocaust

7.
What was the name of the largest death camp located in Poland?
a)
Auschwitz
b)
Bergen-Belsen
c)
Belzec
d)
Treblinka
8.
The deliberate destruction, in whole of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group
a)
Holocaust
b)
Genocide
c)
Concentration Camp
d)
Nuremberg Laws
9.
About how many people were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators?
a)
15 million
b)
13 million
c)
11 million
d)
9 million
10.

Jewish place of worship

a)

church

b)

synagogues

c)

mosque

d)

barracks

11.

The gas used in the gas chambers, originally designed as a pesticide.

a)

Mace

b)

Zyklon B

c)

Deet 3

d)

Cyclone E

12.

Nazi mobile killing units that preceded the more "efficient" gas chambers.

a)

Stormtroopers

b)

Tiergarten

c)

Einsatzgruppen

d)

The SA

13.
A separate area of a city, often an already ethnic neighborhood, which the Germans would block off for the purpose of separating Jews from the rest of the city and impose harsh conditions.  
a)
Quarter
b)
Slum
c)
Ghetto
d)
Concentration Camp
14.
In 1935, the ____ denied Jews German citizenship, segregated Jews from society and also established degrees of “Jewish-ness” based on family ancestry.
a)
The Enabling Act
b)
The Nuremberg Laws
c)
The Reich Fire Decree
d)
The Wannsee Conference Laws
15.
A German word, Untermenschen, meaning “___ -___” used by the Nazis to refer to the groups they deemed undesirable.
a)
sub-human
b)
mixed-breed