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from the reading at history.com http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust

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The Holocaust

Question 1 of 15

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"Holocaust" traditionally had meant

Select one of the following:

  • a burnt offering used as a sacrifice

  • a caustic hologram

  • a hollow vessel that was costly

  • a time of renewal

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Question 2 of 15

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When people talk about "the Holocaust" now, they are usually referring to

Select one of the following:

  • The volcano on top of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy

  • The fires during the 1890's when the forests of Uzbekistan burned

  • A time during World War II when approximately 6 million Jews and others deemed undesirable were killed in Europe by the Axis powers, mostly Nazi Germany.

  • A group of people who protest against injustice in Europe

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Question 3 of 15

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"Anti-Semitic" means

Select one of the following:

  • someone who is against the Seminole Indians receiving restitution from the United States government for loss of their ancestral homelands

  • someone who does not believe the polarity of the magnetic field of the earth has ever changed.

  • a certain type of antiseptic that works for very new diseases like Ebola

  • a racial bias against Jews

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Question 4 of 15

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Adolph Hitler was born in

Select one of the following:

  • Poland

  • Germany

  • Austria

  • Yugoslavia

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Question 5 of 15

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Adolph Hitler blamed the Jews for

Select one of the following:

  • the lunar eclipse of 1899, when he was 10 years old

  • making him eat fish cakes at his school on Fridays

  • the fact that Germany lost World War I

  • the fact that there exist black people in Africa

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Question 6 of 15

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Adolph Hitler's book that describes his philosophy that led to Nazism in which he predicted a general European war that would result in “the extermination of the Jewish race in Germany.” was

Select one of the following:

  • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

  • Gesundheit

  • Guten Tag

  • Mein Kampf

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Question 7 of 15

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A concentration camp was

Select one of the following:

  • a place you could get away on retreat and concentrate on your work

  • a place where Jews and others deemed undesirable were sent to be eliminated

  • a camp for kids to go to in summer to increase their concentration skills

  • a chemical plant where dyes were concentrated until they were dark enough to be used to color military uniforms

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Question 8 of 15

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

The first concentration camp was built in and was under the control of .

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Question 9 of 15

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Fill the blank space to complete the text.

Under the Laws Jews became the targets of stigmatization and persecution.

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Question 10 of 15

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

"Kristallnacht" is the "night of " in when synagogues were burned and Jewish shop windows were smashed. One Hundred Jews were killed and thousands more arrested.

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Question 11 of 15

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The "final solution" to the "Jewish question" was to

Select one of the following:

  • put all the Jews on boats and send them out of the country via the Rhine River

  • convert the Jews to Naziism and change their names to traditional German names

  • eliminate all Jews from German occupied lands by killing them and give their property to Germans

  • allow the Jewish population to have an equal vote in the Senate

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Question 12 of 15

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Fill the blank space to complete the text.

In September 1939 the Jews of Germany were forced into — crowded areas surrounded by fences in which the Jews were allowed to run their own affairs, but they were not allowed to leave.

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Question 13 of 15

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Fill the blank space to complete the text.

At a camp called , over 2 million people were killed. In the year 1944, 12000 Jews were killed there every day.

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Question 14 of 15

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Fill the blank space to complete the text.

After the war, during the years 1945 and 1946 the Trials were held, in which Nazi atrocities were brought to light, and some of the perpetrators who had survived the war were convicted by the Allies.

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Question 15 of 15

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Fill the blank space to complete the text.

The Jews were given a homeland in Israel in the year .

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