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Holocaust Vocabulary Quiz

Select the best answer for the following sentences.
1. Many Jews were deported and sent directly to ___________, such as Auschwitz.
A. Concentration camps
C. The Netherlands
B. Poland
D. Canada
E.
F. 2. The ____________ was used to identify Jewish people and control their whereabouts.
A. Gestapo
C. Kippah
B. Synagogue
D. Yellow star
E.
F. 3. The Nazi secret police were known as ______________.
A. The state police
B. Gestapo
C. Guardians
D. Thules
G.
H. 4. The _____________ excluded Jews from German life, as well as took away some of their natural
rights.
A. SS
B. Gestapo
C. Nuremburg Laws
D. Ghettos
I.
J. 5. ______________ were set up to segregate Jews from the rest of the population.
A. Ghettos
B. Prisons
C. Churches
D. Cattle cars
K.
L. 6. As a result of _______________ in the small nation, thousands of children have now become
homeless orphans.
A. Deportation
B. Gestapo
C. Genocide
D. Nazis
M.
N. 7. When Jewish families began to move into the exclusive neighborhood, some of them were met with
____________ from racist neighbors.
A. Anti-Semitism
B. Prejudice
C. Welcome
D. Hostility
O.
P. 8. During the Second World War roughly six million Jewish people were killed in the ______________.
A. Genocide
B. Fighting
C. Holocaust
D. Riots
Q.
R. 9. The dictator enlisted a _____________ to rid his country of those he considered undesirable.
A. Deportation

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Law
Genocide
Pogrom
10. ______________ is the cyanide gas that was used to kill the prisoners in the concentration camps.
Zyklon B
Anthrax
Mustard gas
Sulfur
11. The Nazi regime continued to carry out their plans for the Final Solution. Jews underwent
___________ and were transported by trains or trucks to six camps, all located in occupied Poland:
Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Majdanek-Lubin.
Deportation
Occupation
Pogrom
Execution

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X. 12. Victim
Y. 13. Rescuer
Z. 14. Perpetrator
AA.15. Bystander
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AE.16.The Showers
AF. 17. Judaism
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18. Occupation
AH.
19. The SS or Schutzstaffel
AI. 20. Crematorium
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A. A person present but not involved; a chance

spectator; an onlooker.
B. A person who is harmed, injured, or killed as
a result of a crime.
C. A person committing a crime.
D. The person who is present and gets
involved to save the victim.
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B.
C.
D.

The Jewish religion

Place where Nazis burned the bodies
Gas chambers where Jews were killed
Hitlers bodyguards; main guards at
concentration camps
E. Control of a country by a foreign military
power

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EXTRA CREDIT (write your answers on the back of the answer sheet)

AO.

In an allegory, people, places, and events are used as symbols.

What can the clearing in the woods stand for? (2 points)

What about the different animals? (2 points)

The Terrible Things? (2 points)

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