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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. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?
(a) Kurschuss.
(b) Mietek.
(c) Dajan.
(d) Gorges.

2. Where did Stark bring Maurice and Filip after they were caught stealing tea?
(a) The gulley to drink.
(b) The crematorium.
(c) The bunks.
(d) To see Schlage.

3. How did patients who were brought to Birkenau from mental hospitals react to being told to undress before their execution?
(a) In different ways.
(b) They resisted fiercely.
(c) With screams.
(d) With laughter.

4. What was the job of the block clerk?
(a) To count all of the gold teeth coming into the camp.
(b) To block prisoner's movements around the camp.
(c) To record data and movements of prisoners.
(d) To keep track of the spending of money.

5. In Chapter 3, when a crowd of 1,000 people undressed, what did they begin to do when they realized they would be killed?
(a) Cried and prayed silently.
(b) Threw their clothing at the German soldiers.
(c) They began to dress again.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gave Filip some solace as his father's remains were burned in the crematorium?

2. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?

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

4. Why did the Sonderkommandos have their own hospital?

5. Before the SS men poured the deadly gas crystals into the gas chamber, what did they do?

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