Lesson Y9-U06-L02

Persecution Begins Laws and Kristallnacht Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 19

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U06-L02, Persecution Begins Laws and Kristallnacht: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 19: Year 9: The Holocaust, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. On what date did a national boycott of Jewish-owned shops begin?

    • 1 April 1933
    • 1 September 1939
    • 15 September 1935
    • 9 November 1938

  2. In which month and year were the Nuremberg Laws introduced?

    • January 1933
    • November 1938
    • September 1939
    • September 1935

  3. Which 1935 Nazi law stripped Jewish people of German citizenship?

    • Law for Restoration
    • Enabling Act
    • Reich Citizenship Law
    • Nuremberg Decree

  4. What did the Law for the Protection of German Blood ban?

    • Religious worship
    • Mixed marriage
    • Foreign travel
    • Higher education

  5. How did the 1935 Nazi racial charts determine who was Jewish?

    • Assessing wealth
    • Counting grandparents
    • Measuring height
    • Testing intelligence

  6. What does the German word 'Kristallnacht' translate to in English?

    • Night of Fire
    • Night of Broken Glass
    • Day of Judgement
    • Darkest Winter

  7. On which dates did Kristallnacht take place?

    • 9-10 November 1938
    • 30 June-2 July 1934
    • 1 April 1933
    • 27-28 February 1933

  8. What event did the Nazis use as an excuse for Kristallnacht?

    • A bank robbery
    • Murder of a diplomat
    • A general strike
    • An election defeat

  9. About how many Jewish-owned shops and businesses were smashed and looted on Kristallnacht?

    • About 75,000
    • About 700
    • About 750
    • About 7,500

  10. About how many Jewish men were arrested and taken to concentration camps after Kristallnacht?

    • About 3,000
    • About 300,000
    • About 30,000
    • About 300

  11. What happened to hundreds of Jewish places of worship during Kristallnacht?

    • Burned down
    • Turned into prisons
    • Converted to schools
    • Seized by banks

  12. How was the Jewish community punished after the Kristallnacht pogrom?

    • Banished immediately
    • Imposed curfew
    • Deprived of water
    • Fined for damage

  13. What group did the Kindertransport bring to Britain after Kristallnacht?

    • Jewish children
    • Political refugees
    • Orphaned adults
    • Wounded soldiers

  14. What is the term for someone who takes action to help others?

    • Collaborator
    • Upstander
    • Aggressor
    • Bystander

  15. Who stood outside Jewish shops during the 1933 national boycott?

    • Foreign tourists
    • Regular police
    • Shop owners
    • SA men

  16. What is the term for cruel and unfair treatment of a group due to their identity?

    • Censorship
    • Persecution
    • Deportation
    • Propaganda

  17. What did the 1935 Nuremberg Laws officially strip from German Jewish people?

    • Citizenship
    • Employment
    • Religion
    • Property

  18. Which category best describes the Nuremberg Laws on the escalation timeline?

    • Rights
    • Safety
    • Economy
    • Health

  19. Which category best describes Kristallnacht on the escalation timeline?

    • Rights
    • Education
    • Elections
    • Safety

  20. How did Nazi persecution of Jewish people escalate between 1933 and 1938?

    • Reluctantly
    • All at once
    • Accidentally
    • Step by step

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