Lesson Y9-U06-L05

Resistance, Rescue and Survival Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 19

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U06-L05, Resistance, Rescue and Survival: 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. When did the armed uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto take place?

    • June 1941
    • April 1943
    • September 1939
    • January 1945

  2. Who led the Jewish Combat Organisation during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?

    • Emmanuel Ringelblum
    • Chiune Sugihara
    • Oskar Schindler
    • Mordechai Anielewicz

  3. About how many lightly armed fighters rose up in the Warsaw Ghetto?

    • Around 7,000
    • Around 70,000
    • Around 70
    • Around 700

  4. How long did the Warsaw fighters hold out against the German army?

    • Nearly a year
    • Just one day
    • Nearly a month
    • Nearly a week

  5. What title is given to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jewish people?

    • Axis Diplomats
    • Ghetto Commanders
    • Allied Liberators
    • Righteous Among Nations

  6. About how many children did Irena Sendler help smuggle out of the Warsaw Ghetto?

    • Around 250
    • Around 669
    • Around 25,000
    • Around 2,500

  7. How did Irena Sendler help smuggled children reunite with families after the war?

    • Built false passports
    • Photographed each child
    • Recorded real names
    • Memorised every address

  8. Which French village quietly sheltered several thousand Jewish refugees?

    • Oradour
    • Montmartre
    • Lidice
    • Le Chambon

  9. Who led the community of Le Chambon that sheltered refugees?

    • Nicholas Winton
    • Pastor Andre Trocme
    • Chiune Sugihara
    • Martin Niemoller

  10. What action did Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara take to save refugees?

    • Hashed secret tunnels
    • Fought the Gestapo
    • Wrote thousands visas
    • Smuggled weapons in

  11. Where was Chiune Sugihara posted as a diplomat when he helped refugees?

    • Lithuania
    • France
    • Poland
    • Germany

  12. What is the false assumption that Jewish people went passively to their deaths called?

    • The final solution
    • Myth of no resistance
    • Passive acceptance theory
    • Ghetto compliance myth

  13. Which of these is considered a form of everyday resistance during the Holocaust?

    • Joining the SS
    • Paying Nazi taxes
    • Sharing hidden food
    • Joining the Wehrmacht

  14. Which type of courage describes keeping education and records alive in secret?

    • Quiet conformity
    • Spiritual resistance
    • Armed resistance
    • Rescue

  15. What was the typical Nazi punishment for people caught resisting or hiding Jews?

    • Death for families
    • Temporary detention
    • Fine and warning
    • Loss of job

  16. Why did Warsaw Ghetto fighters choose armed resistance despite certain defeat?

    • Military victory
    • Dignity over deportation
    • Foreign reinforcement
    • Evacuation orders

  17. Which rescuer was arrested, tortured and sentenced to death by the Gestapo, though she escaped?

    • Nicholas Winton
    • Pastor Andre Trocme
    • Irena Sendler
    • Chiune Sugihara

  18. Why was Chiune Sugihara's rescue work exceptionally courageous?

    • Stole Nazi weapons
    • Led ghetto armies
    • Betrayed Axis plans
    • Disobeyed government orders

  19. What was the primary reason most citizens remained bystanders rather than rescuers?

    • Ignorance of camps
    • Lack of food
    • Support for Hitler
    • Fear of death

  20. Why do many Holocaust survivors feel a strong moral duty to bear witness?

    • Earn financial reward
    • Ensure world remembers
    • Write fiction novels
    • Gain political power

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