The Holocaust Quiz

What was the Nazi regime's deliberate, organized, and state-sponsored persecution of approximately six million European Jews known as?

• Kristallnacht

• The Final Solution

• The Holocaust

• Anti-Semitism

Which groups, in addition to Jews, were targeted by the Nazi regime and considered to be "sub-human" or "Untermenschen"?

• Communists, socialists, and disabled people

• Business owners and the wealthy

• Allied soldiers and politicians

• Scientists and educators

What event marked a violent riot against Jews organized by the Nazis, during which over 1,440 synagogues were burned?

• The Nuremberg Laws

• The Night of the Long Knives

• Kristallnacht

• The Wannsee Conference

What was the term used by the Nazis to refer to the plan to exterminate the Jewish population?

• The Jewish Question

• Operation Reinhard

• The Final Solution

• The Master Plan

Which of the following was NOT a method used by the Nazis to carry out the Holocaust?

• Forced labor in concentration camps

• Specialized gassing facilities

• Public trials and legal proceedings

• Death marches

Which term means prejudice against or hatred of Jews?

• Semitism
• Anti-semitism
• ghetto 
• Holocaust

By the end of the Holocaust, over __________ Jews had been killed? 

• 2 Million
• 4 Million
• 6 Million
• 8 Million

Which phrase best defines the Holocaust?

• the United States plan to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps

• the Allied plan to liberate concentration camps in Eastern Europe

• the Nazi campaign to use genocide to eliminate European Jews

• the Japanese military strategy to destroy United States aircraft carriers

Answer explanation

The Holocaust refers to the Nazi campaign to use genocide to eliminate European Jews.

The deliberate destruction, in whole of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group is called

• Holocaust

• Genocide

• Concentration Camp

• Nuremberg Laws