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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. What size was the cell that Filip and the others were brought to at the end of their eventful day in Chapter 2?
(a) Eight feet by ten feet.
(b) There was no way to tell.
(c) As large as the crematorium.
(d) Three paces long by three paces wide.

2. 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) Scream.
(b) Run.
(c) Pray.
(d) Resist.

3. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?
(a) One blanket.
(b) One and an extra if it was very cold.
(c) One blanket was shared by two prisoners.
(d) None.

4. What happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?
(a) They were often forgetten and starved to death.
(b) They were murdered in their hiding places.
(c) Many of them made it to freedom.
(d) They were caught by police dogs and executed.

5. What was a Kapo?
(a) A prisoner in charge of a working party.
(b) The officer in command.
(c) The German officer who kept the peace among prisoners.
(d) A German citizen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a Volksdeutscher?

2. What was the job of the block clerk?

3. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?

4. How did patients who were brought to Birkenau from mental hospitals react to being told to undress before their execution?

5. What was Sonderbehandlung?

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