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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children were left after the first round of executions?
(a) 60 children.
(b) 12 children.
(c) 45 children.
(d) 90 children.

2. Who visited the building where the children were located?
(a) German Generals.
(b) Military Chaplains.
(c) Local nuns.
(d) Local priests.

3. What did Fritz mention in his letters about his girlfriend?
(a) Her leaving him.
(b) Her pay raise.
(c) Her being pregnant.
(d) Her new car.

4. How did the German soldier bring the little girl in to her execution in "SS-Obersturmführer August Häfner on the killing of the children"?
(a) By holding her hand.
(b) Giving her a piggy back ride.
(c) Pushing her.
(d) Carrying her.

5. What type of village was not targeted by mass killings?
(a) Less than 5,000 people.
(b) Less than 1,000 people.
(c) Less than 10,000 people.
(d) Less than 2,000 people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people people were executed at a time in "An officer cadet on the killing of the adults"?

2. When was Dr. Kremer put to trial?

3. When did the events of "'In the interest of maintaining military discipline..." take place?

4. What triggered an expansion of the killing capability of Belzec?

5. What type of worker did the author of the documents in the first section of "The bodies piled up in the streets" say were wanted?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Kurt Franz, and what did he see in his first day at Treblinka?

2. What did Adolf Eichmann express horror about?

3. What promotion was Kremer pleased with?

4. During what period did the documents of "Their soldierly conduct is exemplary" come from?

5. How is Taubner presented in "None of the Jews that were killed is any great loss"?

6. What did the communication complain about the executions in "His attitude towards the Jews is quite impossible"?

7. How were the letters between Fritz and Lieutenant-General Querner shocking?

8. Who was Pfannestiel, and what contradiction did he present regarding Nazi Germany?

9. What was the substantial sum of cash sent by Gauleiter Greiser meant for?

10. What happened to future shipments of Jews?

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