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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What inconvenience did people not wanting to participate in mass killing endure?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was the cycle unit that participated in mass killing of Jews supported by?

2. What concern did the German government have regarding German soldiers during the war?

3. Who was Oberst and what did he recount?

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

5. What is the question of mass murder raised in the "Foreword"?

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

7. What does the "Introduction" provide a history of the development of?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the historical significance and importance of understanding the Holocaust prior to reading The Good Old Days.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the concept of voluntary verses involuntary participation in mass murders and the Holocaust.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the significance of the Wansee Conference in January 1942 and how it changed the extermination process.

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