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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did the Lithuanians blame for the foreign occupation of their country?
(a) The Communists.
(b) The Jews.
(c) The Nazi party of Lithuania.
(d) The Germans.

2. Who committed the mass murders described by Johannes Blaskowitz?
(a) Local civilians.
(b) Prisoners of war.
(c) The Wehrmacht.
(d) The S.S.

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

4. How many Jews were killed in the events described by Johannes Blaskowitz?
(a) 8,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 3,000.

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

6. Why were the victims of some mass shooting asked to undress?
(a) To amuse the soldiers.
(b) To be sure noone had a bulletproof vest.
(c) To reuse their clothes.
(d) To make a fire.

7. What followed in some instances of a soldier refusing to participate in mass killing?
(a) A general promotion.
(b) A leave of absence.
(c) General punishment.
(d) The execution of the one refusing to follow orders.

8. What does "'Bloody Wednesday' in Olkusz/Ilkenau" describe?
(a) The killing of 2,500 Polish soldiers.
(b) The murder of two German soldiers.
(c) The murder and beating of the Jews of Olksusz.
(d) The hiding of a Jewish family.

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

10. Why did the German government allow Lithuanians to mass murder Jews?
(a) Because it was politically preferable to doing it themselves.
(b) Because the Lithuanians asked permission.
(c) Because they didn't know about it.
(d) Because they arrived too late to prevent it.

11. Why did the author of "Once again I've got to play general to the Jews" object to a Jew being beaten in public?
(a) Because it took away from the killing quotas of the soldiers.
(b) Because of the cleaning necessary.
(c) Because it created an anti-German sentiment in the region.
(d) Because it was not moral.

12. Who wrote "Once again I've got to play general to the Jews"?
(a) Yohan Klink.
(b) Felix Landau.
(c) Markus Smith.
(d) Hans Georg Schultz.

13. When did the first extermination camp open?
(a) December 1942.
(b) December 1941.
(c) January 1941.
(d) March 1942.

14. What does the account of the Babi Yar ravine massacre note wandered into villages in the day following the massacre?
(a) Crying soldiers.
(b) Drunk S.S. soldiers.
(c) Victims that unearthed themselves.
(d) Dogs with body parts.

15. Who was the first document written about in "Each time a victim was beaten to death they started to clap"?
(a) Yohanson.
(b) Smith.
(c) Stahlecker.
(d) Yehem.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Jews died in the Babi Yar ravine massacre?

2. Who wrote the "Foreword" of The Good Old Days?

3. What was the author of "Once again I've got to play general to the Jews" sentenced to for his crimes?

4. Where did the battalion deploy described in the third document of "The brutalization of precious German Manpower"?

5. What did the the statements forming "Quite happy to take part in shootings" show?

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