Download Practice Test 2014 - Multiple Choice

Grade 10 Academic History -WWII
Practice Multiple Choice 2014
NOTE: The questions provided herein are NOT the questions on the test. These
questions are practice and examples only
1. This June 1940 WWII battle is often referred to as the Miracle Evacuation when
British troops, trapped on a beach by the advancing German army, escaped by ship
back to England.
a. D-Day
b. Dieppe
c. Dresden
d. Dunkirk
2. A group of supply ships and freighters sailing together for protection from
submarines attacks is called….
a. Caravan
b. Column
c. Convoy
d. Fleet
e. Procession
3. When Germany invaded this country, war was declared.
a. Austria
b. France
c. Czechoslovakia
d. Poland
4. What was the name of the Act that allowed Hitler to change any German law
including its Constitution?
a. Beer Hall Putsch
b. Enabling Act
c. Final Solution
d. Law for the Protection of the People and State
e. Treaty of Versailles
5. Who did Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney apologize to in 1988?
a. Japanese-Canadians jailed in WWII
b. NAZI
c. Jehovah Witnesses
d. Gays
6. To practice bombing runs before WWII, the German air force attacked the nonmilitary city Guernica during this 1936 war killing over 1,600 civilians.
a. Spanish Civil War
b. War of the Roses
c. Prussian-Franco War
d. War on Terrorism
7. Canadian troops were slaughtered in this August 1942 battle attacking the French
coastline.
a. D-Day
b. Dieppe
c. Dresden
d. Dunkirk
8. On 9 November 1938, a German-Jewish student, upset that his parents were not
allowed to leave Germany, shot and killed a German immigration official in Paris.
That night, Jews were attacked in Germany. The event is called Kristallnacht or
“Night of Broken Glass.” Why?
a. Hitler declared the start of the Final Solution.
b. Upon hearing the news, Hitler threw a wine glass on the ground. It broke
and Hitler demanded that all wine glasses owned by Jews be broken.
c. The windows in all stores owned by Jews in Germany were broken and
the stores ransacked.
d. All eye-glasses belonging to Jews were broken
9. The Allied liberation of western-Europe began after this successful 6 June 1944
attack that included almost 3 million soldiers.
a. D-Day
b. Dieppe
c. Dresden
d. Dunkirk
10. What 7 December 1941 air attack brought the United States into WWII?
a. Hiroshima
b. Hong Kong
c. Midway
d. Pearl Harbour
11. What did soldiers at the British Commonwealth Air Training Program (BCATP) in
Newfoundland do?
a. Train for the attack on Dieppe
b. Train to fly planes
c. Train to jump out of airplanes for the D-Day raid
d. Train to shoot down German airplanes
e. All of the above
12. Who said “The victor will never be asked if he told the truth”?
a. Adolf Hitler
b. Oscar Schindler
c. Prime Minister Mackenzie King
d. Gandhi
13. When the Japanese army invaded China, they raped, tortured and killed most of the
women in this city.
a. Beijing
b. Hong Kong
c. Nanking
d. Shanghai
14. What world organization formed after WWII to maintain world peace?
a. Human Rights Watch
b. Greenpeace
c. League of Nations
d. United Nations
15. What is the term meaning “The systematic extermination of one group”?
a. Final Solution
b. Genocide
c. Holocaust
d. Fire storming
16. To gain political power, Hitler linked this 1919 treaty to Germany’s economic woes
during the 1930s.
a. Charter of Rights and Freedoms
b. Munich Agreement
c. Statue of Westminster
d. Treaty of Versailles
17. What was the name of the 1943 Italian battle did that Canadians fought house-tohouse against the German troops and used a technique called mouse-holing (i.e.,
attacking from the attics)?
a. Ortona
b. Dieppe
c. Normandy
d. Hong Kong
18. The Allied air forces firestorm bombed with German non-military city.
a. D-Day
b. Dieppe
c. Dresden
d. Dunkirk
19. In June 1939, this ocean liner arrived on Canada’s Atlantic coast with 907 Jewish
refugees. The Canadian Government refused entry for the Jews suggesting they
would not make good settlers. The ship returned to Germany and many of the
refugees died in Nazi concentration camps. What was the name of the ship?
a. S.S. St. Louis
b. USS Arizona
c. Bismark
d. S.S. Asthenia
20. What Western European country sends Canada tulips every spring to thank Canadians
because (1) Canada protected their Royal Family during WWII and (2) it is the
country Canadians freed from the Nazi?
a. France
b. Great Britain
c. Holland
d. Poland
e. None of the above
21. It means “My Struggle.”
a. Mein Kampf
b. Mein Holocaust
c. Mein Libre
d. Mein Chien
22. The name of the sleek and fast ship used by Canadians to protect supply ships and
hunt for German submarines.
a. Corvette
b. Destroyer
c. Merchant Marine
d. Submarine Chaser
23. In this December 1941 17-day battle defending a former British colony, over 300
Canadians were killed before the remaining troops surrendered to the Japanese on
Christmas Day
a. Hiroshima
b. Hong Kong
c. Midway
d. Pearl Harbour
24. What was the name of the beach Canadians attacked on D-Day?
a. Dieppe
b. Juno
c. Rose
d. Utah
25. What does the number 5,962,129 represent?
a. The number of War Brides who came to Canada after WWII
b. The number of Canadian soldiers killed in WWII
c. The number of bombs dropped on Germany and Japan during WWII
d. The number of Jews killed in the Holocaust
26. Why is 7 May 1945 important?
a. It is the day the Germans officially surrendered
b. It is called Victory in Europe Day (VE Day)
c. It is my birthday
d. It is the day Nazi ceased to exist in Germany
e. All of the above but C
27. Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King believed he could talk to what person.
a. His dead mother
b. His pet gerbils
c. Rocks
d. A.J. and Greg
28. Under the pretence of homeland protection, what happened to Japanese-Canadians
during WWII?
a. They were denied their basic rights
b. They were issued special clothing
c. They were stripped of their personal belongings and property
d. They were relocated into camps
e. Their families were separated
f. They were forces to live in very poor and isolated conditions while paying
“rent”
g. They were forced into manual labour
h. All of the above
29. What was the name of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
a. Little Boy
b. Fat Boy
c. Fat Man
d. Little Man
30. What was the name of the most notorious German concentration camps for Jew
during the Holocaust?
a. Auschwitz
b. Dresden
c. Hiroshima
d. Poland
31. What German saved the lives of over thousand Jews by having them to work in his
factory?
a. Hitler
b. Rommel
c. King
d. Schindler
32. In this 1940 battle codenamed “Operation Sea Lion”, pilots of the Royal Air Force
shot down nearly 3,000 German planes over London.
a. Battle of the Atlantic
b. Battle of Britain
c. Ortona
d. Dam Busters
33. Which of the following is a stage of the Holocaust?
a. Stripping of rights
b. Dehumanizing
c. Putting in Ghettos
d. Extermination
e. All of the above
34. In 1932, Hitler introduced his 25-point program. It described his plan for the Jews of
Germany. What was his plan called?
a. The Final Solution
b. My Elimination Plan
c. The Holocaust
d. The End
35. What did Prime Minister Mackenzie King say about conscription?
a. Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription
b. I have the ability to compromise but not today
c. Damn the torpedoes, conscription the lazy
d. Everyone will have to fight
Answers
1
D
13
C
25
D
2
C
14
D
26
E
3
D
15
B
27
A
4
B
16
D
28
H
5
A
17
A
29
A
6
A
18
C
30
A
7
B
19
A
31
D
8
C
20
C
32
B
9
A
21
A
33
E
10
D
22
A
34
A
11
B
23
B
35
A
12
A
24
B