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Holocaust

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
How many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust?
a)
1 million
b)
6 million
c)
100'000
d)
60 million
2.
What does the term "Final Solution" mean?
a)
Germany's plan to send all the Jews to Israel
b)
Hitler's plan to commit suicide
c)
Hitler's plan to kill all the Jews in Germany
d)
Hitler's plan to move all Jews to the U.S.
3.
What does the term genocide mean?
a)
the killing of all the pets in a country
b)
The murder of all the children in a country
c)
The murder of a particular gender of people like all the males
d)
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
4.
Hostility to or prejudice against Jews is known as
a)
Pro-Judaism
b)
Anti-Judaism
c)
Anti-Jewishism
d)
Anti-Semitism
5.
Certain sections of cities were set aside to imprison Jews, these sections were called
a)
apartments
b)
projects
c)
ghettos
d)
government housing
6.
What did Jewish people in Nazi controlled areas have to wear to identify them as Jews?
a)
a yellow star of David
b)
a sign that said Jew
c)
Black clothes
d)
A yellow cross
7.
The Holocaust occurred during which war?
a)
World War I
b)
Civil War
c)
World War II
d)
Cold War
8.
How were the Jews transported to the different camps?
a)
Cattlecars
b)
Taxis
c)
Police vans
d)
Horse & buggy
9.
________ __________ is a place of detention  where people were imprisoned often under barbaric conditions
a)
Nazi Party
b)
Displaced persons
c)
Warsaw Ghetto
d)
Concentration Camp
10.
What number closest represent the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust
a)
6,000,000
b)
6,000
c)
600,000,000
d)
1,000,000
11.
The Kristalnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") resulted in all of the following except
a)
synagogues burned
b)
Jewish businesses destroyed
c)
Jewish children expelled from schools
d)
perpetrators were prosecuted
12.
Which leader is responsible for the killing of six million Jews during the Holocaust?
a)
Joseph Stalin
b)
Vladimir Lenin
c)
Adolph Hitler
d)
Otto von Bismarck
13.
The Holocaust was Hitler's "Final Solution" to exterminate which race of people?
a)
Aryans
b)
Jews
c)
Russians
d)
Slavs
14.
The individuals who were victims of the Holocaust were primarily of what religion?
a)
Buddhism
b)
Christianity
c)
Islam
d)
Judaism
15.
Which statement about ghettos is not correct?
a)
Many families lived together in one small apartment.
b)
People were always hungry.
c)
The residents of the ghetto were free to come and go as they pleased.
d)
Living conditions were unsanitary.
16.
Nazis believed Germans were racially superior and Jews were ______ .
a)
prejudiced
b)
unkind
c)
inferior
d)
respected
17.
What was the name of Hitler's army.
a)
nazis
b)
the black hand
c)
bolshiviks
d)
german army
18.

what was the final solution

a)

It was just a term used to describe how they faught

b)

Hitlers plan to destroy the jews

c)

it was the final plan against the U.S

d)

it was hitlers plan to make the perfect cake

19.
What was the time period where Adolf Hitler had 6 million Jews killed because he wanted a pure Aryan Race?
a)
Holocaust
b)
Reign of Terror
c)
Middle Passage
d)
Rwanda Genocide
20.
Trials used to convict criminals who were in charge of the Holocaust.
a)
Nuremberg Trials
b)
Scopes Trials
21.
Josef Menegle did majority of his experiments in which concentration camp?
a)
Chelmno
b)
Auschwitz
c)
Treblinka
d)
Sobibor
22.
What happened September 11, 1938 when Adolf order the Jewish businesses and synagogues to be destroyed?
a)
Lieben
b)
Schmerzhaft
c)
Kristallnacht
d)
Glucklich
23.
What was the plan that Adolf and his advisors came up with to get rid of the Jews or anyone who resisted?
a)
Final Solution
b)
Starve them
c)
Beat them
d)
Killed them
24.
Who was the twin study doctor at Auschwitz?
a)
Adolf Hitler
b)
Artur Axmann
c)
Josef Berchtold
d)
Joseph Mengele
25.
What was the day that Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker?
a)
April 10, 1941
b)
Feb 12, 1938
c)
April 30, 1945
d)
May 20, 1945
26.
What was the trials that convicted Nazi war criminals?
a)
Nuremberg Trials
b)
Berlin Trials
27.
What was the event where Adolf Hitler killed 84 SA police because they were weak. He then put the SS killing squads incharge of Germany.
a)
Night of Broken Glass
b)
Night of the Long Knives
28.
Who was in-charge of the SS killing squads?
a)
Herman Gorring
b)
Rudolph Hess
c)
Adolf Eichmann
d)
Heinrich Himmler
29.
What does persecution mean?
a)
Treating people well because of their political views
b)
Treating someone cruelly due to their race, religion, or political views
c)
Treating someone well because you really like them
d)
Treating people bad because you dislike the same people they dislike 
30.
What was a concentration camp?
a)
a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned 
b)
A place where prisoners of war are placed
c)
A camp where people go to do work for the government
d)
A camp for students that have a hard time focusing on school
31.
The _____________was the ‘army’ of the Nazi Party; overseeing the concentration camps, ghettos, and serving as Hitler’s personal bodyguards.
a)
Einsatzgruppen
b)
The SS or schutzstaffel
c)
gestapo
d)
the Blackshirts
32.
There were six of these built, all in Poland, for the sole purpose of killing as many people as possible: ____ .
a)
labor camps
b)
ghettos
c)
gas chambers
d)
death camps
33.
Once all the people had died, their bodies would then be sent to the _______ for burning and disposal.
a)
gas chambers
b)
crematorium
c)
death camps
d)
labor camps
34.
If chosen for death, some of the victims would be sent to the ______ often disguised as showers, or they would be shot.
a)
gas chambers
b)
fire pits
c)
crematorium
d)
transit camps
35.
What was the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”?
a)
How the Nazis would set up the concnetration camps working the trains. 
b)
How to effectively and efficiently rid the world of the Jews
c)
How to effectively and efficiently rid Europe of the Jews.
36.
It was at the __________, which was attended by several high-ranking Nazi leaders, that the “the Final Solution to the Jewish Question” was planned.
a)
Potsdam Conference
b)
Berlin Conference
c)
Nuremberg Conference
d)
Wannsee Conference
37.
The ___ was a mobile, killing squad that was part of the SS but followed the Wehrmacht, as they moved through Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
a)
Luftwaffe
b)
Mischling
c)
Einsatzgruppen
d)
Swastika
38.

Blond hair and blue eyes; Hitler's perfect race

a)

Anti-Semitism

b)

Einsatzgruppen

c)

Furher

d)

Aryan Race

39.

The deadliest of the camps

a)

Bergen-Belsen

b)

Final Solution

c)

Auschwitz-Birkenau

d)

Anti-Semitism

40.

A place people were sent to work as prisoners

a)

Forced-labor camp

b)

concentration camp

c)

death camp

d)

Auschwitz-Birkenau

41.

To expel or force people to leave a place

a)

anti-semitism

b)

Holocaust

c)

deportation

d)

genocide

42.

Camps built solely for extermination (killing) of Jews and other targeted people

a)

Concentration Camps

b)

Death Camps

c)

Forced-Labor Camps

d)

Final Solution

43.

An organization with the purpose of training young boys to become future Nazi soldiers

a)

Aryan race

b)

Einsatzgruppen

c)

Hitler Youth

d)

Ghettos

44.

Also known as Roma, an ethnic minority group that moved in "tribes" from place to place; also persecuted by Nazis

a)

Aryan race

b)

Hitler Youth

c)

Gypsies

d)

Gestapo

45.

Holocaust

a)

Another name for WWII

b)

The murder of approximately six million Jews and millions of other groups targeted by the Nazis and their collaborators.

c)

The internment of Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

46.

extermination camp

a)

Labor camps that became well known for their high death rates.

b)

A Nazi facility where victims were killed on a mass industrialized scale and their bodies burned or buried in mass graves.

c)

Facilities where Japanese Americans were held after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

47.

racial ideology

a)

policy about a group of people based on race

b)

thinking that all races are equal

c)

segregation of one group based on race

48.

Nazi

a)

the Germans

b)

Adolf Hitler and his minions

c)

the German national socialist political party that emerged in after World War I

49.

prejudice

a)

getting to know someone before making a decision about them

b)

making a decision about a person or group of people without sufficient knowledge, usually based on stereotypes

c)

thinking that all people are the same based on common characteristics

50.

racism

a)

The practice of discrimination, segregation, persecution, and domination of a group based on that group's race.

b)

Making decisions about an entire group based on the characteristics of a few members of that group.

c)

Targeting a group of people who are not like you just because they are different from you.

51.

dehumanization

a)

humiliating someone as a way to bully them

b)

the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII

c)

reducing the target group to objects or beings not worthy of human rights

52.

collaborator

a)

Someone who sees the bad that is happening and does nothing about it.

b)

Someone who works to save those being targeted by the Nazis.

c)

Someone who works with the enemy who is occupying their country.

53.
What do the words on the gate say?
a)
Welcome Jewish friends
b)
You are at Auschwitz
c)
Thank you for your help
d)
Work makes you free
54.
About how many people were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators?
a)
15 million
b)
13 million
c)
11 million
d)
9 million
55.
Jewish worship houses
a)
church
b)
synagogues
c)
mosque
d)
barracks
56.
What does Holocaust literally mean?
a)
Ashes
b)
Fire
c)
Sacrifice by Ashes
d)
Sacrifice by Fire
57.
What is propaganda?
a)
Advertisements
b)
True information
c)
False information
d)
Posters
58.

What event in 1936 did Hitler use to promote his glory of Germany.

a)

The Olympic Games.

b)

The World Cup

c)

The Joe Lewis boxing event.

d)

The World Aviation Race Cup

59.

To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population the Germans and their collaborators created

a)

Transit-camps

b)

Ghettos

c)

Forced labor camps

d)

Suburbs

60.

As Germany invaded the USSR ______________________________ were used to kill Jews and enemies of Germany.

a)

Prisoner of War Camps

b)

Mobile Killing Units

c)

Transit-Camps

d)

Refugee Stations

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