Sslab.Info - Holocaust Test
Test knowledge of causes and effects of the Holocaust.
- 1.
- A.
The time when 11 million Jews were killed by Nazis
- B.
The Holocaust never happened
- C.
The time when Hitler controlled Germany and much of the world
- D.
The systematic murder of 6 million Jews and 5 million other people of different ethnicities, religions, and lifestyles
- 2.Why is it important to study the Holocaust and the events leading up to the Holocaust?
- A.
To get good grades in school
- B.
To see the warning signs and make sure genocide does not happen again
- C.
Studying the Holocaust is not important
- D.
By studying the Holocaust you will learn how the Nazis took over the world
- 3.What is the biggest difference between Jews and Christians?
- A.
Jews celebrate Christmas and Christians don’t
- B.
Jews believe in the Easter Bunny and Christians don’t
- C.
Christians wear yarmulkes and Jews don’t
- D.
Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah and Jews don’t
- 4.Besides the Jews, which groups of people were also murdered in the Holocaust?
- A.
Gypsies
- B.
Slavs
- C.
Homosexuals
- D.
Jehovah's Witnesses
- E.
All of the above
- 5.What is anti-Semitism?
- A.
To hate Jews
- B.
To hate Nazis
- C.
To hate Hitler
- D.
To hate player haters
- 6.How did stereotyping the Jews benefit the Nazis?
- A.
The Nazis could play loud music on their stereos
- B.
The Nazis could discriminate against all the people with dark hair
- C.
The Nazis could separate the Jews from society and blame their problems on them
- D.
The Nazis could steal all the money from the Jews
- 7.Which of the following statements is true?
- A.
There is a long history of people discriminating against the Jewish people
- B.
Hitler was the first to hate the Jews
- C.
All Germans hate Jews
- D.
All Americans throughout history have never been anti-Semites
- 8.Which two of the following are myths about Hitler? (Choose more than one)
- A.
Jews did something to Hitler and that is why he hated them
- B.
Hitler was sent to prison for trying to overthrow the government
- C.
Hitler was part Jewish
- D.
A and C only
- E.
A and B only
- 9.What is the name of the book that revealed Hitler’s plans?
- A.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- B.
The Torah
- C.
The Bible
- D.
Mein Kampf
- 10.Who did Hitler say were the two evils of the world?
- A.
Yellows and Blacks
- B.
Teachers and Principals
- C.
Communists and Jews
- D.
Fascists and Nazis
- 11.Who did Hitler want to use as Germany’s scapegoat for all the problems of Germany?
- A.
Jews
- B.
Jehovah’s Witnesses
- C.
David Hasslehoff
- D.
Joe Lewis
- 12.Which of the following is not an effect World War I had on Germany?
- A.
Germany gained land from France
- B.
Germany printed worthless money to pay for the damages they had caused - which led to hyperinflation [prices went up 1000%]
- C.
Germany was not allowed to have an army
- D.
Almost half the Germans were unemployed
- 13.According to Gobineau, what happened when races mixed?
- A.
The children would be deformed
- B.
The offspring would be “weak," which meant they would be dishonest and untrustworthy
- C.
Everybody would be happy
- D.
When you mix yellow and blue people you get green people
- 14.Who did Gobineau, and later Hitler, say was the superior race?
- A.
Asians
- B.
Africans
- C.
Aryans
- D.
Jews
- 15.Which of the following is not a reason the Nazi’s used the hatred for the Jews
- A.
The Nazis used the hatred of the Jews to help them rise to power
- B.
Blaming the Jews made the Germans feel better
- C.
Nazis used the hatred to get people to think like them and promote their racist ideas
- D.
The Nazis used the hatred of Jews as a form of entertainment
- 16.Who proved to Hitler and the world that humans can not be deemed “superior” just because the color of their skin?
- A.
Joe Louis and Jessie Owens
- B.
Jessie Louis and Joe Owens
- C.
Greg Martin and David Knapp
- D.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln
- 17.Which is the best explanation of how Hitler’s philosophy of Fascism led to the Holocaust?
- A.
Fascists believe that all the races are in competition to see who will dominate
- B.
Fascists believe that force is the right way to solve problems
- C.
Fascists believed democracies were weak and would not fight dictators like Hitler
- D.
All of the above
- 18.What is the name for the laws that began to take away the rights from German Jews?
- A.
Krystalnacht Laws
- B.
Nuremburg Laws
- C.
Nazi Laws
- D.
Jude Laws
- 19.The singling out of Jews led to what event where Jewish businesses and Synagogues were vandalized and destroyed? [the start of organized violence against the Jews]
- A.
Krystalnacht
- B.
Krystalburger
- C.
Kryschristopherson
- D.
Krystaltorah
- 20.When Hitler and the Nazi’s began to conquer neighboring lands, like the Ruhr Valley, Czechoslovakia, and Austria, what did other European nations do to stop Germany?
- A.
Nothing
- B.
Started World War II
- C.
Started World War I
- D.
Bombed Pearl Harbor
- 21.What is the code word used by the Nazi’s for their plan to kill all the Jews?
- A.
The Final Countdown
- B.
The Final Four
- C.
The Final Solution
- D.
The Final Plan to Kill the Jews
- 22.How did the Nazi’s first begin to round up the Jews and physically separate them from society?
- A.
Sent the Jews to a different country
- B.
Put the Jews on a boat to America
- C.
Put the Jews in Ghettos
- D.
Created a Jewish homeland called Israel
- 23.What became the most efficient way to kill and dispose of the bodies of victims of the Holocaust?
- A.
Drown and dispose of the bodies to the bottom of the ocean
- B.
Shootings and mass graves
- C.
Zyklon B (deadly gas) and cremate the bodies
- D.
Deadly medical experiments
- 24.Why were experiments conducted on the prisoners of the concentration camps?
- A.
To test severe physical conditions, war wounds, and genetic experiments to benefit the Germans
- B.
To torture the Jews because they were deemed “inferior”
- C.
To understand what happens when races mix
- D.
To prove the ideas of Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau were correct
- 25.Who was known as the “Angel of Death”?
- A.
Adolf Hitler
- B.
Karl Lueger
- C.
Heinrich Himmler
- D.
Josef Mengele
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