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

2. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?
(a) Poland.
(b) Back to Germany.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) England.

3. What did Filip encounter when he went to Crematorium 3 for the first time?
(a) Stray hairs blowing in the wind.
(b) Women's hair drying on the brick floor.
(c) Women's hair being shaved off their heads.
(d) Hair being made into wigs.

4. What was the name for a prisoner entrusted with special duties by the SS?
(a) Kapo.
(b) Funktionshaftling.
(c) Scharfuhrer.
(d) Oberaufseherin.

5. What did the green triangle on the uniform of the block clerk, Vacek, signify?
(a) He was Jewish.
(b) He was a German soldier.
(c) He was a former professional criminal.
(d) He was a former Christian who converted to Judaism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take a prisoner's body to burn in the oven?

2. Why were the prisoners who were forced to participate in the preparations for the exterminations separated into two groups at first?

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

4. What were SS men most likely to be bribed with?

5. How long did Filip live in Block 11 in Auschwitz before being sent to Birkenau?

(see the answer key)

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