Night By Elie Wiesel Vocabulary Test
Night by Elie Wiesel Vocabulary Test
- 1.What word means the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group?
- A.
Holocaust
- B.
Genocide
- C.
Pogrom
- D.
Fascism
- 2.What word means total destruction?
- A.
Annihilation
- B.
Genocide
- C.
Holocaust
- D.
Fascism
- 3.What word means the state-sponsored systematic persecution of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945?
- A.
Annihilation
- B.
genocide
- C.
Holocaust
- D.
Fascism
- 4.What word means the act of honoring the memory of or serving as a memorial to someone or something?
- A.
fascism
- B.
totalitarianism
- C.
commemoration
- D.
annihilation
- 5.What word means total control of the country by the government?
- A.
fascism
- B.
Totalitarianism
- C.
commemoration
- D.
Annihilation
- 6.What word means government-organized attacks on Jewish neighborhoods?
- A.
Holocaust
- B.
genocide
- C.
Pogrom
- D.
totalitarianism
- 7.What word means a system of government that is marked by stringent social and economic control, a strong centralized government usually headed by a dictator?
- A.
fascism
- B.
Totalitarianism
- C.
Pogrom
- D.
Genocide
- 8.What word means ill-feeling or hatred toward Jews?
- A.
annihilation
- B.
Prejudice
- C.
Anti-Semitism
- D.
genocide
- 9.What word means an irrational hatred of a person, group, or race based upon a preconceived opinion or judgment?
- A.
Annihilation
- B.
Prejudice
- C.
anti-Semitism
- D.
genocide
- 10.What word means a generalization of a person; a person who is regarded, not as an individual, but as a member of a group or nationality?
- A.
Prejudice
- B.
Scapegoat
- C.
Anti-Semitism
- D.
stereotype
- 11.Which of the 10 core concepts focuses on what types of prejudice Jews have faced over history?
- A.
Pre-War
- B.
Anti-Semitism
- C.
Persecution
- D.
Final Solution
- 12.Which of the core concepts described the beginning of the legal subjugation of the rights of the Jews in Europe as with the Nuremburg Laws?
- A.
Anti-Semitism
- B.
Wiemar Republic
- C.
Totalitarian State
- D.
Resistance
- 13.Which core concept described the White Rose movement, which openly protested Nazism in Germany?
- A.
U.S. and World Response
- B.
Resistance
- C.
Rescue
- D.
Aftermath
- 14.Which core concept described the problems that displaced persons faced?
- A.
U.S. and World Response
- B.
Resistance
- C.
Rescue
- D.
Aftermath
- 15.Which core concept described the fact that there were approximately nine million Jews living in all the countries of Europe prior to 1933?
- A.
Pre-war B
- B.
Anti-Semitism
- C.
Weimar Republic
- D.
Totalitarian State
- 16.Which core concept describes the fact that anti-Semitic attitudes played a role in the failure of others to help Jewish refugees?
- A.
Anti-Semitism
- B.
Persecution
- C.
U.S. and World Response
- D.
Final Solution
- 17.Which core concept described Hitler’s three-fold plan for ridding Europe of Jews?
- A.
Anti-Semitism
- B.
Persecution
- C.
U.S. and World Response
- D.
Final Solution
- 18.Which core concept described a decision being made by an elite group of 15 high-ranking officials at a mansion called the Wannsee Conference?
- A.
Anti-Semitism
- B.
Persecution
- C.
U.S. and World Response
- D.
Final Solution
- 19.Which core concept proved that widespread support for Jews could save lives?
- A.
U.S. and World Response
- B.
Resistance
- C.
Rescue
- D.
Aftermath
- 20.Which core concept describes the difficult time Germany had between WWI and WWII?
- A.
Pre-War
- B.
Anti-Semitism
- C.
Weimar Republic
- D.
Totalitarian State
- 21.Which of the following was NOT part of Hitler’s three-fold plan to rid Europe of Jews?
- A.
Expulsion
- B.
Ghettos
- C.
Transportation
- D.
Annihilation
- 22.What was the Night of Broken Glass?
- A.
Einsatzgruppen
- B.
Kristallnacht
- C.
Nuremburg Laws
- D.
Auschwitz
- 23.What was the mass killing of Jews by mobile killing squads called?
- A.
Einsatzgruppen
- B.
Kristallnacht
- C.
Nuremburg Laws
- D.
Auschwitz
- 24.What took away Jews’ civil rights, including the right to marry non-Jews?
- A.
Einsatzgruppen
- B.
Kristallnacht
- C.
Nuremburg Laws
- D.
Auschwitz
- 25.Which country was able to save the most Jews?
- A.
Denmark
- B.
Germany
- C.
Poland
- D.
Sweden
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