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Holocaust Quiz

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
How many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust?
a)
5,000,000
b)
7,000,000
c)
11,000,000
d)
6,000,000
2.
What race did Hitler believe to be superior?
a)
German
b)
Arabic
c)
French
d)
Aryan
3.
What portrayed Jews as evil and ugly?
a)
Propaganda
b)
Relocation
c)
Proposals
d)
Reparations
4.

What did Jews have to wear which made them easily recognized?

a)

Cross

b)

Swastika

c)

a yellow Star of David

d)

Ank

5.
During the 1920s, German Jewish families 
a)
were well established in German society.
b)
rejected German culture.
c)
lived in small, religious, rural communities
6.
What vocab word matches the following defintion? Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
a)
Persecution
b)
Intolerance
c)
Tolerance
d)
Genocide
7.

Hostility to or prejudice against Jews.

a)

Anti-Democratic

b)

Neo-Nazism

c)

Anti-Semitism

d)

Jewism

8.

A part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups.

a)

suburb

b)

ghetto

c)

concentration camp

d)

transit camp

9.

In places like Auschwitz Jews were killed in what looked like showers called?

a)

gas chambers.

b)

mobile killing vehicles.

c)

drowning tanks.

d)

small numbers by fire squad.

10.

Which definition best describes 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 go that have a hard time focusing on school

11.

Which definition best describes the term 'persecution'?

a)

Poor treatment base on a disagreement of political views

b)

Hostile or poor treatment based on race or political or religious beliefs.

c)

Hostile or poor treatment because you really do not like them.

d)

Hostile or poor treatment based on a disagreement of religious views.

12.

Blonde haired, blue-eyed people were typified as the Nazi ideal and the “master race.” What were these people called?

a)

Slavic

b)

Roman

c)

Aryan

d)

Gypsies

13.
The Holocaust occurred during which war?
a)
World War I
b)
Civil War
c)
World War II
d)
Cold War
14.

What types of people/communities did Hitler plan to eliminate? Check ALL that apply

a)

Jewish

b)

People of Color

c)

Disabled/Crippled/Handicapped

d)

LGBTQ community

15.

Propaganda can persuade an audience through...(check all that apply)

a)

posters

b)

videos

c)

literature

d)

speeches

16.

Hitler and the Nazis blamed the Jewish people for the collapse of the economy in Germany.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Auschwitz was a well known concentration camp

a)

True

b)

False