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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 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.

2. What plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?
(a) Bribe every SS man that they knew would help them out.
(b) Escape in the middle of the night.
(c) Build an underground tunnel.
(d) Inform the next Polish transport of their imminent death.

3. What did a Block Senior receive as a reward for making prisoners keep the block clean?
(a) No beatings.
(b) An extra portion of soup.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) A reprieve from death.

4. What was the rank of a Rottenfuhrer?
(a) Lance Corporal.
(b) Sergeant.
(c) Captain.
(d) Sergeant Major.

5. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?
(a) Bribed the Kapo.
(b) Pleaded with Mietek.
(c) Smuggled him in.
(d) Spoke to Obersturmfuhrer Weber.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only Polish word that Aumeier learned in order to make himself understood by his victims?

2. How did prisoners have to do their weekly shaving?

3. Why did a prisoner approach Schlage as Schlage looked over the ranks of men?

4. From what point of view is the story told?

5. What is the Polish name for the town the Germans called Auschwitz?

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