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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the battalion deploy described in the third document of "The brutalization of precious German Manpower"?
(a) Kiev and Warsaw.
(b) Warsaw and Minsk.
(c) Rostov and Kiev.
(d) Berlin and Minsk.

2. Where were the soldiers of the motorized column when they witnessed a massacre in 'If they get their revenge, we're in for a hard time"?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Rostov.
(c) Youshka.
(d) Paneriai.

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

4. What was the Nazi government's concern regarding the German executioners?
(a) Their physical health.
(b) Their mental health.
(c) Their accuracy.
(d) Their efficiency.

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

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

7. What did the Auschwitz doctor extract from living patients?
(a) Information.
(b) The teeth.
(c) The appendix.
(d) Organ tissue.

8. When did the events in "'Bloody Wednesday' in Olkusz/Ilkenau" take place?
(a) June 1940.
(b) July 1941.
(c) July 1942.
(d) July 1940.

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

10. What was the rationale behind the executions in "SS-Obersturmführer August Häfner, Sonderkommando 4a"?
(a) The supposed murdering of 200 people.
(b) The supposed murdering of 2,000 people.
(c) The supposed murdering of 3,000 people.
(d) The supposed murdering of 20 people.

11. What do the documents of "Pushed to their psychological limits" say some executioners suffered from?
(a) Personality disorders.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Bipolar disorder.
(d) Mental breakdowns.

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

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

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

15. What language was 'The Good Old Days' translated from?
(a) Slovak.
(b) German.
(c) French.
(d) Hebrew.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the first extermination camp opened?

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

3. What period of history does the majority of The Good Old Days deal with?

4. When did the events in "Soldiers sitting on rooftops and platforms watching the show" take place?

5. What was the author of "Once again I've got to play general to the Jews" job while he wrote his journal?

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