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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the events in "Present at the execution with heads of other authorities" take place?
(a) Kiev.
(b) Rostov.
(c) Bobruisk.
(d) Stranbeck.

2. How many Jews died in the Babi Yar ravine massacre?
(a) 3,771.
(b) 371.
(c) 33,771.
(d) 3,371.

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

4. What is the third document in "The brutalization of precious German Manpower" an excerpt of?
(a) A field report.
(b) A book.
(c) A diary.
(d) A biography.

5. What inconvenience did people not wanting to participate in mass killing endure?
(a) A fine of 300 Reichmarks.
(b) Being sent to the eastern front.
(c) Loss of prestige.
(d) 2 years in prison.

6. How were some Jewish executions organized according to "Execution as popular entertainment"?
(a) As examples for others.
(b) As entertainment.
(c) As a show for SS officials.
(d) As training exercises.

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

8. Who wrote "Scores of soldiers, some in bathing trunks, watching the proceedings"?
(a) Sergeant Rosler.
(b) Major Shulsh.
(c) Major Rosler.
(d) Captain Smith.

9. What were those who wrote "Pushed to their psychological limits" part of?
(a) The S.S. medical corp.
(b) Einsatzgruppen.
(c) The Nazi Mental health institute.
(d) The Army Corp od Medicine.

10. What did the the statements forming "Quite happy to take part in shootings" show?
(a) Direct participation in the Holocaust was voluntary.
(b) People ready to save Jews.
(c) Civilians ready to hide Jews.
(d) Soldiers ready to disobey orders.

11. What does The Good Old Days use to make his point?
(a) Texts by survivors.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Juxtaposition of comments and account of atrocities.
(d) Drawings.

12. How were the bodies of the Babi Yar ravine massacre disposed of?
(a) They were individually buried.
(b) In mass graves.
(c) They were burnt.
(d) They were thrown in the sea.

13. What did the local partisans around Kaunas do for the Germans?
(a) Gathered weapons.
(b) Tracked communists.
(c) Expelled Jews.
(d) Performed pogroms.

14. How did the Lithuanians see the German invasion of their country?
(a) With indifference.
(b) As a danger for the Jews.
(c) As a disaster.
(d) As a liberation.

15. When did the events in "Soldiers sitting on rooftops and platforms watching the show" take place?
(a) August 17, 1941.
(b) August 7, 1941.
(c) September 17, 1942.
(d) September 7, 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the account of the Babi Yar ravine massacre note wandered into villages in the day following the massacre?

2. What was " 'Total 137,346'--the so-called 'Jäger Report' " marked?

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

4. How are some of the statements in "Quite happy to take part in shootings" written?

5. Where were the Jews murdered by the unit held in the third document?

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