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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was executed in "Soldiers sitting on rooftops and platforms watching the show"?
(a) Supposed Communists.
(b) Supposed terrorists.
(c) Supposed German soldiers being murdered.
(d) Supposed saboteurs.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the German government allow Lithuanians to mass murder Jews?

2. What do the statements forming "Quite happy to take part in shootings" not show?

3. What does the "Foreword" provide the reader with?

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

5. Why were the victims of some mass shooting asked to undress?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the myth examined in "Quite happy to take part in shootings"?

2. What did the statements given by police, government officials, members of the SS, and Einsatzgruppen all agree on?

3. What were Jews made to do during the executions at the Babi Yar ravine?

4. What were some problems regarding the gas vans?

5. How did the Wehrmacht lose local popularity?

6. What time period did the excerpts from the diary of a cycle battalion cover?

7. What does the book proper consist of according to "The brutalization of precious German manpower," and how is it divided?

8. Why were the victims forced to strip naked before execution?

9. What organization was Landau involved in during his youth?

10. What did Landau formally state regarding Jewish children in comparison to his own?

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