Lesson Y9-U06-L05

Y9-U06-L05 Resistance, Rescue and Survival Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 19

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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. What was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?

    • A rebellion of German soldiers in 1945 against their officers in the final weeks
    • A strike by factory workers in 1939 over pay cuts and long working hours
    • An armed rising in April 1943 against German troops sent to deport the last residents
    • A protest march to Berlin in 1935 against the Nuremberg Laws and the new decrees

  2. Who led the Jewish Combat Organisation (ZOB) in the Warsaw Ghetto?

    • Chiune Sugihara, the diplomat who wrote visas in Lithuania
    • Mordechai Anielewicz
    • Irena Sendler, the social worker who smuggled out children
    • Janusz Korczak, the teacher who cared for orphans in the ghetto

  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 is the honour 'Righteous Among the Nations'?

    • A title for members of the Hitler Youth who served at rallies
    • A prize for Jewish writers whose novels were published in 1935
    • An honour for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jewish people
    • A medal given to German soldiers who fought in Warsaw in 1943

  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. What did Irena Sendler do to help families be reunited later?

    • She stamped each child with a visa in Lithuania
    • She flew the children to America
    • She sent letters to the Nazi government
    • She recorded the real names of the children

  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 did Chiune Sugihara do to help Jewish refugees?

    • He organised trains of children to Britain in the summer of 1939
    • He hand-wrote thousands of visas so refugees could escape
    • He led an armed uprising in Lithuania against the German occupiers
    • He smuggled food into the Warsaw Ghetto through a network of tunnels

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

    • Lithuania
    • France
    • Poland
    • Germany

  12. What is the 'myth of no resistance'?

    • The wrong idea that Jewish people went quietly to their deaths
    • The claim that the Allies had no leaders in the fight against Hitler
    • The idea that the Nazis never used force against anyone in occupied Europe
    • The belief that Warsaw had no ghetto and no mass deportations at all

  13. Which is an example of everyday resistance?

    • Sharing food and hiding children
    • Joining the Nazi Party for steady wages
    • Building barricades in a ghetto
    • Writing laws for the SS

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

    • Quiet conformity
    • Spiritual resistance
    • Armed resistance
    • Rescue

  15. What punishment could resistance bring under the Nazis?

    • Dismissal from a job only, with no other penalty for the family
    • A few days in prison followed by a short period of supervision
    • A small fine and a warning given at the local police station
    • Death for the person, and often for their whole family

  16. Why did the Warsaw fighters choose to resist when they could not win?

    • To die with dignity on their own terms rather than be deported
    • They were ordered to fight by the Gestapo as part of a security plan
    • They expected to win with support from Britain and the United States
    • They wanted to join the German army and fight on the eastern front

  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 did Sugihara's action count as an act of courage?

    • He was paid by Jewish families to write the visas
    • He disobeyed his own government's orders to save refugees
    • His government ordered him to rescue refugees
    • He worked for the Nazis as a diplomat

  19. Why were most people bystanders rather than rescuers?

    • Fear of death for themselves and their families, and a sense of powerlessness
    • Rescue was legal and free in occupied Europe under German protection
    • The Nazis paid everyone to ignore the victims and keep quiet about them
    • There were no victims in the occupied towns that anyone could see

  20. Why do survivors often feel a duty to bear witness?

    • So the world would know what happened and never forget it
    • Because surviving made them wealthy
    • Because the law requires them to testify each year
    • So they could claim wartime rewards from the government

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