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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the author of "Once again I've got to play general to the Jews" order men to be put to death on several occasions?
(a) To make room for new slaves.
(b) For fun.
(c) Because they refused to work.
(d) Because they were communists.

2. What was the author of "Once again I've got to play general to the Jews" involved with in his youth?
(a) The Nazis.
(b) The Communist party.
(c) Nationalists.
(d) Socialist.

3. How are some of the statements in "Quite happy to take part in shootings" written?
(a) Some are auto-biographical, others are biographical.
(b) All are auto-biographical.
(c) They are fictional.
(d) All are biographical.

4. What does "The Twelve Toppers and a Little Hat" say stuck out of the ground?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Shovel.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Body parts.

5. How many Jewish Lithuanians were killed in June 1941?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 1,500.

6. What were details of soldiers sometimes ordered to do?
(a) Took leave during executions.
(b) Prevented civilians from coming to close to the execution site.
(c) Assisted executions as spectators.
(d) Destroyed films made during executions.

7. What did the author of the first document head?
(a) Einsatzgruppe B.
(b) Einsatzgruppe A.
(c) Einsatzgruppe C.
(d) Einsatzgruppe D.

8. How did the Death Dealer of Kaunas kill his victims?
(a) With a wooden club.
(b) With a sword.
(c) With a knife.
(d) With a gun.

9. What do the statements forming "Quite happy to take part in shootings" not show?
(a) Willingness of particular individuals to save Jews.
(b) Willingness from the government to exterminate the Jews.
(c) People willing to not follow orders.
(d) Official persecution of those who refused to participate in the Holocaust.

10. What was the second method used by Nazis to kill Jews?
(a) Shooting.
(b) Gas chamber.
(c) Gas vans.
(d) Gas planes.

11. What was the rank of the man who wrote "Once again I've got to play general to the Jews"?
(a) Blutordensträger.
(b) Staffelführer
(c) Obergruppenführer
(d) Unterscharführer

12. What did some civilians do to victims ready to be executed?
(a) They killed them.
(b) They left.
(c) They tried to save them.
(d) They beat the victims.

13. What did those willing to participate in the Holocaust enjoy?
(a) Promotions.
(b) Money.
(c) Gifts.
(d) Leave of absence.

14. What was the third method used by Nazis to kill Jews?
(a) Gas planes.
(b) Gas vans.
(c) Death camps.
(d) Shooting.

15. What did the author of "Notes of Eastern Territories Commander, Johannes Blaskowitz" complain about?
(a) The cleaning duties assigned to him.
(b) The number of Jews killed.
(c) His pay.
(d) The disorganization of the mass murder of Jews and Poles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does The Good Old Days use to make his point?

2. What did the German government use as an excuse to escalate the hatred for the Jews?

3. Who committed the mass murders described by Johannes Blaskowitz?

4. What was the first method used by Nazis to kill Jews?

5. What does "'Bloody Wednesday' in Olkusz/Ilkenau" describe?

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