Lesson Y9-U05-L04

Y9-U05-L04 Women & the Family in Nazi Germany Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 18

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Lesson Y9-U05-L04, Women & the Family in Nazi Germany: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 18: Year 9: Life in Nazi Germany, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What did the Nazi slogan 'Kinder, Kuche, Kirche' mean?

    • A campaign to send women to work in factories
    • A woman's place was in the home, as wife and mother
    • A law giving women the vote in local elections
    • A slogan for summer camps run for Hitler Youth girls

  2. Which Mother's Cross was awarded to mothers of eight or more children?

    • The Iron Cross for Mothers
    • The bronze Mother's Cross
    • The gold Mother's Cross
    • The silver Mother's Cross

  3. What did Lebensborn, the 'Fountain of Life', provide?

    • A rally for mothers held at Nuremberg
    • Homes where 'Aryan' women could have babies
    • A state fund paying for school uniforms
    • A women's trade union for factory workers

  4. How large was a Nazi marriage loan in 1933?

    • 500 marks
    • 100 marks
    • 10,000 marks
    • 1,000 marks

  5. How did a marriage loan work for a couple who had children?

    • The loan was given only to couples where the wife worked
    • Each child cancelled a quarter of the loan
    • The loan had to be repaid within one month
    • Each child doubled the amount of the loan

  6. From 1934, what share of university places could go to women?

    • 25%
    • 50%
    • 5%
    • 10%

  7. Which professional women were pushed out of their jobs from 1933?

    • Married women doctors and civil servants
    • Male Nazi Party officials
    • Unmarried male teachers in primary schools
    • Foreign journalists working in Berlin

  8. Why did women's employment rise again by 1939?

    • Labour shortages from rearmament forced the Nazis to recruit women back
    • Marriage loans were doubled in size for every couple who had children
    • Women were given a national pension once they reached retirement age
    • Women were allowed to sit in the Reichstag as deputies for the first time

  9. Which group were boys in the Hitler Youth required to salute in the street?

    • Women wearing the gold Mother's Cross
    • Officers of the SS
    • Women wearing a Lebensborn badge
    • Teachers in Hitler Youth uniform

  10. What did the German Women's League (NS-Frauenschaft) teach women?

    • Engineering and car repair
    • Trade union organising
    • Cooking, childcare and Nazi values
    • Modern art and foreign languages

  11. Which look was the Nazi ideal for women?

    • Trousers, short hair and a cigarette held in the fingers in public places
    • Fashionable make-up copied from Paris, with bright lipstick and fine powder
    • No make-up, no trousers, and hair in plaits or a bun
    • Dyed hair and a permanent wave styled in the latest fashion from Berlin

  12. Why was the Mother's Cross policy hard to call a fair success?

    • It cost the state nothing to run because mothers paid for their own crosses
    • It valued only 'racially pure' mothers and persecuted others
    • It was equally popular with all German women across every region and class
    • It was never awarded to any woman in the entire country during the period

  13. Why did the German birth rate rise in the mid-1930s, beyond Nazi policy alone?

    • Women were forced to have children by law in every German household
    • Lebensborn had doubled the population of Germany by the year 1935 alone
    • Hitler Youth members had become parents at a very young age in large numbers
    • It was partly recovery from the low birth years of the Depression

  14. Why did the Nazis worry about the birth rate and push for more babies?

    • They wanted to reduce the number of soldiers in the German army each year
    • They needed babies to fill seats in the Reichstag and the local councils
    • They planned to move the capital to the east and needed more settlers
    • Their birth rate had fallen and they wanted a large, 'racially pure' population

  15. Which combination did the Nazis use to push women out of professional jobs?

    • Higher pay for women working in factories
    • Free childcare centres in every street
    • Public trials and prison sentences only
    • Sackings and quotas combined with marriage loans

  16. Which evidence shows the aim to get women out of work only partly succeeded?

    • Thousands of women doctors kept their jobs
    • Female employment rose again by 1939 as workers were needed
    • Marriage loans were given to every married couple
    • The 10% university quota was removed in 1935

  17. What did the Nazis expect a woman's role in 'Kirche' to be?

    • Active in politics and local councils, campaigning for party candidates
    • Running businesses in towns and managing money for the family firm
    • Modest, religious and devoted to family rather than politics
    • Attending trade union meetings each week in the factories of the city

  18. Why was the Nazi aim of an 'ideal' look for women the least successful of the three aims?

    • Hitler Youth girls enforced the dress code with fines
    • Many city women kept make-up, trousers and Hollywood fashions
    • Every German woman bought the government's approved dress
    • Women were forced by law to wear uniforms

  19. Which description best fits the Nazi approach to women?

    • Giving women equal pay and the vote in all areas of public life
    • Letting women freely choose between work and home without any pressure
    • Turning the clock back, using force and rewards to push women into the home
    • Ignoring women and focusing only on men's jobs and career progression

  20. A couple took a 1,000-mark marriage loan and then had four children. How much of the loan was still to repay?

    • 500 marks
    • 0 marks
    • 750 marks
    • 250 marks

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