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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 wrote the "Foreword" of The Good Old Days?
(a) Karl Hamster.
(b) Lord Dacre of Glanton.
(c) Hermer Smith.
(d) Ruth Eglemann.

2. What question does the "Foreword" ask about the mass murder and public perception?
(a) How people can watch people get killed without bombing the installations used to kill them.
(b) How mass murder could consistently be carried on in public view without opposition.
(c) How people become evil when they start as seemingly good people.
(d) How people can kill without learving significant traces.

3. What do the three documents in "Pushed to their psychological limits" say victims sometimes did that was difficult for the killer to handle?
(a) They hid.
(b) They resisted.
(c) They fled.
(d) They fought back.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the three documents about presented in "Pushed to their psychological limits"?

2. What was the second method used by Nazis to kill Jews?

3. What was the rationale behind the executions in "SS-Obersturmführer August Häfner, Sonderkommando 4a"?

4. What did the author of "Notes of Eastern Territories Commander, Johannes Blaskowitz" complain about?

5. When did the author of "Once again I've got to play general to the Jews" write his diary?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who wrote the "Foreword" and what does the writer discuss?

2. Who was Oberst and what did he recount?

3. What does "Execution as popular entertainment" say about Jewish executions?

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

5. What edition was the "Preface" taken from, and what does it include?

6. What were some problems regarding the gas vans?

7. What was noted in a few instances of those who refused to participate in mass killings?

8. What did Landau provide good example of?

9. What was the usual recourse for the murderers, according to "Pushed to their psychological limits"?

10. What did a customs official say regarding the organization of the murders in Vinnitsa and Brailov?

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