As all teachers are acutely aware, students arrive in our classrooms with a great deal of information and numerous opinions that they have acquired at home and from popular culture as a whole.   The purpose of the following pseudo "true/false quiz" is to attempt to elicit that information and those opinions specific to the Holocaust.   Once we as teachers have identified what students know and are misinformed about the Holocaust, the better able we will be to help them better understand that important yet extremely complex subject.

	Instructions:  Please indicate whether you believe each of the following statements is true or false.   Evaluate each statement individually and be prepared to state your rationale for believing whether the statement is true or false.
	1. Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany in January 1933 in a free, democratic election.
	2. Most Germans were anti-Semitic and strongly supported Hitler because he promised to rid Germany of the hated Jews.
	3. Hitler stated clearly in Mein Kampf and repeated publicly on numerous occasions soon after becoming Chancellor that he intended to rid Europe of all its Jews.
	4. Very soon after he consolidated his power, Hitler ordered the Gestapo to begin rounding up Germany's Jews and to send them to concentration camps.
	5. Very soon after he consolidated his power, Hitler decreed that all Jews must wear a yellow Star of David on the outside of their clothing.
	6. Hitler and the Nazis devised a systematic plan to persecute Germany's Jews, a plan which they began to implement in the infamous pogrom known as Kristallnacht in November 1938.
	7. In his speech to the Reichstag on January 30, 1939, Hitler stated publicly that, in the event of a war, he intended to exterminate all of the Jews of Europe.
	8. At Hitler's direction, at the Wannsee Conference, held on January 20, 1942, leaders of the Nazi party and the SS approved a specific plan for the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question."
	9. Most Germans were aware of Hitler's plan for a "Final Solution" to the Jewish Question and strongly supported it.
	10. The Jews of Europe made the Nazis' job easier by offering little or no resistance to Nazi efforts to exterminate them.