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Anne Frank Historical Context Vocab (Day 2)

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Jews were persecuted in which of the following ways? Select all that apply!

a)

antisemitic laws

b)

public identification and exclusion

c)

violence & physical displacement

d)

internment & forced labor

2.

The Nurmeburg Laws accomplished which of the following?

a)

identified children with disabilities & sent them to facilities to be killed

b)

identified the number of Jews in Germany and specified their location

c)

excluded Jews from citizenship and prevented non-Jews from marrying Jews

d)

stripped Jews of their jobs and valuable possessions

3.

Which of the following is the best definition for euthanize?

a)

behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something

b)

take aggressive action against a person without the use of a weapon

c)

to murder

d)

to kill painlessly, especially to relieve someone's suffering from an incurable condition or illness

4.

The process, either official or unofficial, of people being involuntarily moved from their homes because of war, government policies, or other societal actions, requiring groups of people to find new places to live

a)

Placate

b)

Genocide

c)

Displacement

d)

Ghetto

5.

The Jews being forced o move from their original homes into the ghettos is an example of which of the following? Select all that apply!

a)

Stereotyping

b)

Discrimination

c)

Eugenics

d)

Displacement

6.

The Jews being forced to move from the ghettos to concentration camps or extermination camps is an example of displacement

a)

True

b)

False

7.

The Nazis used color-coded patches to classify prisoners at the concentration and extermination camps

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Define ghetto

a)

The process of people being involuntarily moved from their homes because of war, government policies, or other societal actions, requiring groups of people to find new places to live

b)

Enclosed areas of towns or cities used to contain, isolate, and control the Jews

c)

Camps where Jews were detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy

d)

Large apartments that were used to house, isolate, and control Jews

9.

Which of the following best describes the living situation in the ghettos

a)

Luxurious

b)

Average/Normal

c)

Poor

10.

Choose the best definition of genocide

a)

An internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to isolate a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group

b)

An internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to discriminate against a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group

c)

An internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group

d)

An internationally recognized crime where acts are unintentionally committed that destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group

11.

Choose the best definition for extermination camp

a)

Labor camp specializing in exterminating animals

b)

Concentration camp specializing in the mass annihilation of unwanted persons

c)

Concentration camp that is not specialized in any way

d)

Concentration camp that focuses on interrogating and questioning Jews

12.

An internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group

a)

fracticide

b)

homicide

c)

displacement

d)

genocide

13.

Around how many Jews were killed during the Holocaust?

a)

600,000

b)

1 million

c)

6 million

d)

6 billion

14.

Jews were the only group of people forced into concentration camps by the Nazis

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Who was Anne Frank?

a)

A young Jewish woman who spied on the Nazi Party

b)

An elderly woman who died in Auschwitz

c)

A teenager who survived the holocaust

d)

A teenager who died during the holocaust

16.

The Nazi Party did NOT discriminate against homosexuals

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Choose the best definition for eugenics

a)

The study of living organisms, divided into many specialized fields that cover their morphology, physiology, anatomy, behavior, origin, and distribution

b)

Study of the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species/population, especially through discouraging reproduction by people with genetic defects or undesirable traits that could be inherited

c)

Study of how genes and certain qualities or traits are passed down from one generation to the next

18.

The Nazi Party used eugenics to try and meet their goal of "purifying" the human race

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Choose the best definition for antisemitism

a)

Hostility toward or discrimination against Christians as a religious or racial group

b)

Tolerance toward or acceptance for Jews as a religious or racial group

c)

Tolerance toward or acceptance for Christians as a religious or racial group

d)

Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group

20.

Puts one country above all others and places the most emphasis on promoting of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other countries or groups

a)

Fascism

b)

Racism

c)

Nationalism

d)

Communism

21.

Choose the best definition for reparations in the context of this unit

a)

the compensation for war damage paid by a defeated nation

b)

say very firmly that you want something; say that people must have something

c)

the action of feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; repentance

d)

a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject

22.

The ________ experienced discrimination at the hands of the ________.

a)

Jewish, Nazis

b)

Germans, Jewish

c)

Nazis, Jewish