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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 the Sonderkommando's doctor's wife try to follow him as he was being deported?
(a) She clung to his legs and was dragged along.
(b) She joined a crowd marked with the Star of David.
(c) She sewed a Star of David onto her coat.
(d) She bribed an SS man.

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

3. What did a female prisoner who was slowly stripping off her clothes do?
(a) Ripped her skin with her fingernails.
(b) Foamed at her mouth in madness.
(c) Slammed her high heel into Quackernack's forehead.
(d) Punched Quackernack in the groin.

4. What was the midday meal for prisoners?
(a) A thin soup.
(b) Sausage.
(c) Boiled potatoes.
(d) Bread and water.

5. When hundred of prisoners were beaten and ordered to undress in the yard, what did Fischl do?
(a) Cried loudly.
(b) Cursed.
(c) Prayed.
(d) Objected.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a Kapo?

2. What was a bum-boy?

3. What was Sonderbehandlung?

4. How many times had the prisoners already repeated Vacek's same command at the beginning of Chapter 1?

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

(see the answer key)

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