The Holocaust

Test Quiz

Questions on this quiz are based on information from
The Holocaust.

1. What was the Holocaust?
a. A battle in World War II
b. When six million Jewish people were killed by the German Nazis
c. A time when all people in Germany were made to work hard for little food
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

2. What book did Hitler write where he said he wanted to rid Germany of the Jews?
a. His Journal
b. The Third Reich
c. Buch von Adolf
d. Mein Kampf
e. Wellenlager

3. Besides wanting to kill all of the Jewish people, who else did Hitler want to get rid of?
a. Polish
b. Catholics
c. Handicapped
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

4. When the Germans took over a city in Europe, what was the place in town called where they put the Jewish people?
a. The Prison
b. The Asylum
c. The Jail
d. The Dungeon
e. The Ghetto

5. What was the name of the places where they would take the Jews and make them work or kill them?
a. Labor prisons
b. Concentration camps
c. Ghost towns
d. Jail houses
e. Work precincts

6. What were gas chambers?
a. Places where people had to work until they passed out
b. Places where they tortured prisoners
c. Places where Jewish people were killed by poisonous gas
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

7. What young girl wrote a journal of her life hiding for two years from the Nazis?
a. Anne Frank
b. Eva Braun
c. Sophie Scholl
d. Eleanor Roosevelt
e. Cary Schindler

8. How many innocent people have historians estimated that Hitler and the Nazis killed?
a. 1 million
b. 3 million
c. 6 million
d. 11 million
e. 17 million

9. Who was Corrie ten Boom?
a. A Jewish lady who protested against the Germans
b. A German fighter pilot
c. A Dutch lady who helped Jewish people to hide from the Nazis
d. A Danish lady who spied on the Germans
e. A French freedom fighter

10. What nationality was Oskar Schindler, the man who helped save many Jewish people during World War II?
a. French
b. German
c. Polish
d. Dutch
e. Jewish


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