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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. After the SS men, Aumeier and Grabner, convened as to the viability of the pit they had driven to, what were the prisoners ordered to do?
(a) Dig a bigger pit.
(b) Go back to the camp.
(c) Take a short nap.
(d) Throw the corpses into the pit.

2. What did the author overhear the prisoner next to him saying in Chapter 1?
(a) Nonsensical mumbling.
(b) Prayers to God to save him.
(c) Curses at the Germans.
(d) Mumbles of disbelief at the happenings.

3. Why were the prisoners so concerned about lice?
(a) The itching was unbearable.
(b) Prisoners would be made to eat the lice.
(c) A prisoner with lice would be put in boiling hot water.
(d) One infected louse could cause typhus and death.

4. After a while, how did Filip and other Sonderkommandos regard anybody arriving at the crematorium?
(a) With a glimmer of hope that someone would make it out alive.
(b) As doomed to die.
(c) As a victim of their own doing.
(d) As though they were family.

5. What was one of Vacek's commands to the lined-up prisoners in the yard of Block 11?
(a) "Attention!"
(b) "Forward march!"
(c) "Silence now!"
(d) "Caps off!"

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Fischl?

2. Who did Filip notice in the front rank of the Sonderkommando group he was in at Birkenau?

3. What did the green triangle on the uniform of the block clerk, Vacek, signify?

4. What did the so-called representative of the Foreign Ministry tell the crowd they could not leave without?

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

(see the answer key)

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