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February 24, 2006 History -
Genocide Quiz: Objectives 1 - 3
4. I will be able to analyze the changes in the Nazi’s treatment of Jews and other minorities that came with World War II.
1. Hitler began World War II because _____.
a.) England was about to attack Germany.
b.) Germany was under attack by the Jews.
c.) Hitler wanted more room for the Aryan race.
d.) Oscar Schindler bribed Hitler and asked him to attack other countries.
2. Among the first groups to be killed by the Nazis were the _____.
a.) Jews and Christians b.) Christians and homosexuals
c.) handicapped and the very sick d.) the very sick and the Aryans
3. A Jew that was killed by the Einsatzgruppen would probably have lived in ______.
a.) a rural area b.) an urban area
c.) a ghetto d.) a death camp
4. In Nazi Germany before World War II, a Jew would probably have [____], while during the war, that Jew would probably have [____]. ______
a.) been killed … lost her/his job b.) lost her/his job … been killed
c.) been sent to Auschwitz … gone free d.) been rewarded … been punished
5. The largest of the Nazi death camps was named _____.
a.) Sobibor b.) Treblinka
c.) Auschwitz d.) Tereisenstadt
5. I will be able to analyze the different ways in which people resisted the Nazis.
6a. Oscar Schindler made his money by ____.
a.) running factories b.) finding gold
c.) exploring Africa d.) farming
7a. Schindler gave Jews ____.
a.) jobs b.) tickets to America
c.) a new religion d.) none of the above
8a. Schindler eventually _____.
a.) killed his workers b.) married a worker
c.) bought Jews w/ his $ d.) became Jewish
9a. To protect Jews, Schindler ____.
a.) built hiding places b.) killed Aryans
c.) created false ID cards d.) killed Nazis
10a. Oscar Schindler was himself ____.
a.) a Christian b.) a Jew
c.) a Hindu d.) a Muslim
6b. Most death camp uprisings took place _____.
a.) during World War 1 b.) between WW I and II
c.) at WW I’s beginning d.) near the end of WW II
7b. Most people who revolted at death camps _____.
a.) escaped b.) were killed
c.) were released d.) moved to Denmark
8b. A crematorium was used to _____.
a.) gas Jews b.) unload boxcars
c.) store Jewish wealth d.) burn bodies
9b. A Sonderkommando’s job was to _____.
a.) take Jewish wealth b.) take Jews’ hair
c.) unload boxcars d.) move dead bodies
10b. Many of the guns used by Jews were ____.
a.) easy to find b.) from America
c.) stolen from the Nazis d.) from Belgium
6c. The king of Denmark supported Jews by ____.
a.) giving them weapons b.) giving them food
c.) wearing an armband d.) wearing a small hat
7c. People in Denmark used ___ to smuggle Jews to Sweden.
a.) fishing boats b.) planes
c.) boxcars d.) buses
8c. The king of Denmark at the time was ____.
a.) Christian IX b.) Christian X
c.) John Paul II d.) Louis XIV
9c. People in Denmark smuggled Jews from ____.
a.) the big cities b.) the countryside
c.) port cities d.) throughout Denmark
10c. How many entire countries tried to save their Jews? ___
a.) 1 b.) 2
c.) 5 d.) all of them
6d. The Warsaw ghetto was in what country? ____
a.) Germany b.) Poland
c.) Austria d.) England
7d. Jews there began fighting when they learned about ____.
a.) the Nuremberg laws b.) the death camps
c.) the ghettos d.) the end of the war
8d. Jews used ____ as their weapons.
a.) rocks b.) knives
c.) smuggled weapons d.) all of the above
9d. Most of the Warsaw ghetto fighters ____.
a.) escaped b.) died fighting
c.) still live in Warsaw d.) are still in hiding
10e. At the climax of the battle, the Nazis ____.
a.) gave up fighting b.) set the ghetto on fire
c.) took Jewish hostages d.) let the Jews go free
6. I will be able to analyze the ways in which Jews and non-Jews responded to life in the ghettos, the concentration camps, and the death camps by watching selections from Schindler’s List.
11. In Poland (the country where most of the film takes place), rural and urban Jews _____.
a.) suffered different fates b.) moved together to rural areas
c.) moved together to urban areas d.) left Poland before the Nazis arrived.
12. Which of the following was NOT one of the hiding places we saw in the film? ____
a.) the sewers b.) trap doors in the floor
b.) inside a refrigerator d.) inside a piano
13. When the Nazis liquidated the ghetto (moved Jews to the concentration camp), the Jews in hiding ____.
a.) were eventually caught or killed by the Nazis b.) remained hidden for weeks, then escaped
c.) remained hidden for hours, then escaped d.) were all killed by the Nazis
14. What animal helped guard the death camps and the concentration camps? ____
a.) lions b.) dogs
c.) bears d.) bulls
15. Which of the following did the Jews whom Schindler saved inscribe one a ring? _____
a.) “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
b.) “For God so loved the world that he sent them his only begotten son.”
c.) “He who saves the live of one person saves the world entire.”
d.) “It is easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter Heaven.”
7. I will be able to analyze the origin of the conflict between ethnic groups in Rwanda and describe the genocide that followed.
16. In ancient Rwanda, people who would later be considered Hutus and people who would later be considered Tutsis ____.
a.) were in constant conflict b.) alternated between times of war and times of peace
c.) got along well together d.) never knew one another
17. The Belgians originally put the [______] in charge of the [______]. _____
a.) Hutus … Tutsis b.) Tutsis … Hutus
c.) Hutus … Belgians d.) Tutsis … British
18. Once the Belgians left Rwanda, which ethnic group took control of the government? _____
a.) the Hutus b.) the Tutsis
c.) the British d.) the Igbo
19. The Hutus used which of the following events as a reason to begin the Genocide in Rwanda? _____
a.) the death of the Belgian king b.) the death of the Hutu president
c.) the departure of the United Nations d.) the Holocaust
20. The weapon of the choice for the Hutus during the Rwandan genocide was a _____.
a.) machine gun b.) gas chamber
c.) machete d.) electric chair
SOAPS check: P = PURPOSE