Lesson Y9-U06-L03

Y9-U06-L03 Life and Dignity in the Ghettos Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 19

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Lesson Y9-U06-L03, Life and Dignity in the Ghettos: 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 Germany invade Poland, starting the Second World War?

    • 30 January 1933
    • 1 September 1939
    • 1 April 1933
    • 9 November 1938

  2. Roughly how many Jewish people lived in Poland when Germany invaded in 1939?

    • About 330 million
    • About 33 million
    • About 330,000
    • About 3.3 million

  3. When was the Warsaw ghetto sealed?

    • November 1940
    • April 1933
    • November 1938
    • September 1939

  4. How many people were held in the Warsaw ghetto?

    • Over 400,000
    • About 4,000
    • Around 4 million
    • Under 40,000

  5. What was the official daily food ration in the ghettos?

    • About 1,800-2,200 calories a day
    • About 18-22 calories a day
    • About 180-220 calories a day
    • About 2,800-3,200 calories a day

  6. How many people at most shared one room in Warsaw?

    • Up to fifteen people
    • Up to nine people
    • Up to two people
    • Up to four people

  7. Who often smuggled extra food into the ghettos?

    • German soldiers stationed inside the ghetto walls
    • Smugglers, often children
    • Trade unions running shops
    • Nazi officials handing out extra rations

  8. What was the Judenrat?

    • A secret Jewish army fighting the Nazis in the forests of eastern Poland
    • A Jewish council the Nazis forced to run a ghetto and carry out their orders
    • A council that wrote the Nuremberg Laws and approved every new decree
    • A committee that rebuilt synagogues and reopened Jewish schools after 1945

  9. What is a ghetto?

    • A market where Jewish traders sold cloth freely to customers each Sunday
    • A holiday camp for children run by the state in the mountains each summer
    • A sealed-off, overcrowded area where Jewish people were forced to live
    • A type of synagogue built on a hill and decorated with carved stone

  10. What is deportation?

    • An order to build new homes for workers in the eastern provinces of Germany
    • A holiday trip paid for by the government as a reward for loyal service
    • Forcing people to leave their homes and move somewhere else against their will
    • A voluntary move to a new job abroad that was chosen by the worker

  11. What is spiritual resistance?

    • Building barricades on city streets to block German patrols at night
    • Joining the army to fight the invaders in open battles along the frontier
    • Keeping culture, faith, learning and hope alive against an enemy that wants to destroy them
    • Writing newspaper articles praising the Nazis to protect local families

  12. What did the Oneg Shabbat group do?

    • Ran a soup kitchen for German soldiers stationed near the ghetto gates
    • Smuggled weapons into the ghetto through the sewers under the city walls
    • Buried an archive of diaries and drawings so the truth would survive
    • Organised weekly concerts for Nazi officers in the ghetto theatre hall

  13. Which teacher protected and taught the orphans in his care in the ghetto?

    • Martin Niemoller
    • Janusz Korczak
    • Hans Scholl
    • Oskar Schindler

  14. What did secret schools in the ghettos do?

    • Taught children when lessons were banned
    • Taught only the German language to all pupils
    • Kept children inside Hitler Youth camps
    • Trained children for the German army

  15. Why did Germany's invasion of Poland make persecution far more brutal?

    • It ended persecution inside Germany and restored civil rights
    • It put roughly 3.3 million Jewish people under Nazi control
    • It caused the national boycott of Jewish shops that began in 1933
    • It led directly to the Nuremberg Laws being passed in the Reichstag

  16. A family of five lived in one room in Warsaw. What does this show?

    • A normal living arrangement in 1939 Poland for families of that size
    • A large family enjoying extra space in a comfortable flat in Warsaw
    • A wealthy family choosing to share a house with relatives and friends
    • Overcrowding that the Nazis imposed to make life harsher

  17. Which category best describes Jewish doctors who kept ghetto hospitals running?

    • Joining an armed uprising
    • Keeping people alive through care
    • Keeping culture alive through art
    • Escaping the ghetto to Britain

  18. Why did the ration of about 180-220 calories a day matter so much?

    • It was far below what a person needed, causing hunger and disease
    • It was enough for children only, while adults received nothing at all
    • It was the same as a normal daily diet for a working adult in the city
    • It was higher than the rations given to ordinary workers in Germany

  19. Why did the Nazis make the ghettos overcrowded and short of food on purpose?

    • To weaken and control people, making them easier to dehumanise
    • To encourage families to move to rural areas where farms needed workers
    • To make the ghettos cheaper to run for the local city councils
    • To turn the ghettos into tourist sites for visiting German officials

  20. Why is recording the truth considered an important form of resistance?

    • It won the war for the Allies by inspiring fighters on the eastern front
    • It preserves evidence and voices, so the Nazis could not erase the story
    • It fed people and saved lives directly through food and medicine
    • It persuaded the German army to stop fighting and surrender in the east

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