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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The New Death Factories.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did prisoners have to do their weekly shaving?
(a) With cold water, no soap and blunt razors.
(b) With the edges of cutting knives.
(c) With tiny scissors.
(d) WIthout any water.

2. What did the SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?
(a) A treasured cookie.
(b) Lashing with a whip.
(c) Orders to be still.
(d) Bread rations.

3. Why was Serge so angry at Dr. Pach for giving medical treatment to prisoners?
(a) He believed all prisoners were faking it.
(b) He was sick and had not been treated.
(c) He wanted Dr. Pach's job.
(d) He had been beaten because the sick rate was too high.

4. Why did a prisoner approach Schlage as Schlage looked over the ranks of men?
(a) He asked for more food for the men.
(b) To beg for mercy.
(c) To show him his wounds.
(d) To complain about Vacek's murders.

5. When the SS men assembled about 2,000 people to the crematorium yard in Chapter 3, what did one man lead the people to do?
(a) Resist.
(b) Scream.
(c) Pray.
(d) Run.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only Polish word that Aumeier learned in order to make himself understood by his victims?

2. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?

3. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?

4. Who pretended to be a representative of the Foreign Ministry to a crowd of people about to be gassed to death?

5. What did a Block Senior receive as a reward for making prisoners keep the block clean?

(see the answer key)

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