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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. Where did one of Filip's team find a hand grenade?
(a) In the new Birkenau crematoria.
(b) In Bunker 1.
(c) In an urn at Auschwitz.
(d) In the pocket of a dead Ukranian SS man.

2. From what point of view is the story told?
(a) Third person.
(b) Omnisicient.
(c) Second Person.
(d) First person.

3. How did prisoners have to do their weekly shaving?
(a) With the edges of cutting knives.
(b) WIthout any water.
(c) With cold water, no soap and blunt razors.
(d) With tiny scissors.

4. Why did Fischl get so upset with the other prisoners while he recited the Kaddish?
(a) The others were eating while he prayed.
(b) They talked while he tried to pray.
(c) The others made fun of him.
(d) He couldn't remember the words.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name for a prisoner entrusted with special duties by the SS?

2. What was the emblem on the side of the truck that took the men back and forth to the mass grave?

3. What happened to the women in Block 10 at Auschwitz?

4. What were Filip and the others ordered to do with the clothing left behind by those just murdered in the crematorium?

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

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