Lesson 4

4 The persecution of minorities Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 15

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The 20 questions

  1. Which group was primarily targeted by the Nazi boycott of April 1933?

    • Trade union offices
    • Communist newspapers
    • Foreign embassies
    • Jewish businesses

  2. What was the main legal effect of the Nuremberg Laws passed in 1935?

    • Created trade unions
    • Banned all religions
    • Exiled all minorities
    • Stripped Jewish citizenship

  3. Which term describes the nationwide violent pogrom against Jewish people in November 1938?

    • Kulturkampf
    • Putsch
    • Gleichschaltung
    • Kristallnacht

  4. Which other group besides Jewish people was persecuted on racial grounds?

    • Roma and Sinti
    • Prussian officers
    • Junker nobility
    • Wehrmacht soldiers

  5. Which specific German criminal law was used by the Nazis to persecute homosexual men?

    • Article 48
    • Enabling Act
    • Nuremberg Code
    • Paragraph 175

  6. How did Nazi racial ideology categorise Slavic people?

    • Nordic equals
    • Natural allies
    • Honorary Aryans
    • Racially inferior

  7. Which 1933 law removed Jewish professionals from the civil service?

    • Nuremberg Laws
    • Civil Service Law
    • Law against Overcrowding
    • Enabling Act

  8. What was the main aim of Nazi persecution of minority groups?

    • Economic equality
    • Racial purity
    • Social welfare
    • Democratic reform

  9. What term describes removing Jewish professionals from state-funded work?

    • Economic exclusion
    • Direct enfranchisement
    • Forced assimilation
    • Voluntary emigration

  10. Roma families are registered and monitored by authorities on racial grounds. Which group is affected?

    • Swing Youth
    • Catholic clergy
    • Trade unionists
    • Roma and Sinti

  11. What state-backed action in April 1933 targeted Jewish-owned shops?

    • Mandatory closure
    • A business boycott
    • Direct expropriation
    • Forced nationalisation

  12. Which 1935 law banned marriages between Jews and non-Jewish Germans?

    • The Versailles Treaty
    • The Weimar Constitution
    • The Nuremberg Laws
    • The Dawes Plan

  13. Who was primarily targeted by the 1933 compulsory sterilisation law?

    • People with disabilities
    • Political dissidents
    • Unemployed workers
    • Foreign diplomats

  14. Why did many German Jews emigrate between 1933 and 1939?

    • Economic prosperity
    • Government incentives
    • Increasing state discrimination
    • Better job offers

  15. What was a direct economic impact of the 1933 anti-Jewish shop boycott?

    • Tax exemptions
    • Increased profits
    • State subsidies
    • Loss of customers

  16. A Nazi official claims certain groups weaken the nation's racial health. Which idea is this?

    • Racial hygiene beliefs
    • Free-market economics
    • Liberal welfare reform
    • Democratic socialism

  17. How did Nazi persecution of minority groups change between 1933 and 1938?

    • Stopped completely
    • Remained unchanged
    • Became more lenient
    • Became more extreme

  18. What was the main method of Nazi racial policy between 1933 and 1939?

    • Democratic integration
    • Escalating legal persecution
    • Equal rights expansion
    • Immediate mass deportation

  19. What did the 1938 pogrom demonstrate about Nazi anti-Jewish policy?

    • Peaceful assimilation
    • Open physical violence
    • Legal tolerance
    • Political moderation

  20. Which other minority group was heavily targeted alongside Jewish people by Nazi Germany?

    • Roma and Sinti
    • Foreign diplomats
    • Political allies
    • Academic elites

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