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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 happened to Daniel Obstbaum?
(a) He was shot trying to escape.
(b) He was given a week's special leave.
(c) He bribed Dobrowolny, an old schoolmate.
(d) He escaped with Fero Langer.

2. What was the quarrel between Mietek and Fischl over?
(a) Who should be Kapo.
(b) Whether prayers could be said.
(c) Who worked the hardest.
(d) The food rations.

3. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?
(a) To help with the burning of corpses.
(b) To bring chlorinated lime for the corpses.
(c) To join the Sonderkommando there.
(d) To move up in the ranks of his job.

4. What did the statement, "he has gone to the wire" refer to?
(a) The birds sitting on the wire fences.
(b) A prisoner who escapes past the wired fence.
(c) Someone who dared to climb the barbed-wire fence and fell.
(d) A prisoner who was killed by running into the electrified fence.

5. What did Vacek order to be done with the tea that the prisoners were to drink?
(a) Have it thrown into the gully-drain.
(b) It was to be used for the evening's bath.
(c) It would be sent back to be used the next day.
(d) Have it thrown into the men's faces.

Short Answer Questions

1. When one of the Sonderkommandos told a woman he recognized that she was about to be gassed to death, what did she do?

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

3. Why did the Sonderkommandos have their own hospital?

4. What rank was Hauptsternfuhrer Hans Aumeier?

5. What was Auschwitz fashion?

(see the answer key)

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