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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 was Filip ordered to do to the dead bodies in the cremation room?
(a) Strip them of their clothing.
(b) Bury them.
(c) Check to make sure they were dead.
(d) Haul them into a pile.

2. Who was the man muttering to himself in the ranks next to Muller?
(a) A Rabbi that Muller once knew.
(b) An old school chum of Muller's.
(c) Muller's father.
(d) A lawyer from Muller's hometown.

3. When one of the Sonderkommandos told a woman he recognized that she was about to be gassed to death, what did she do?
(a) Calmly agreed to spread the word.
(b) Disfigured herself with her nails and foamed at the mouth.
(c) Committed suicide.
(d) Cried silently.

4. What was a Volksdeutscher?
(a) A believer in the German tradition.
(b) A person born and bred in Germany.
(c) A follower of Hitler.
(d) An ethnic German.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Sonderbehandlung?

3. What did a Block Senior receive as a reward for making prisoners keep the block clean?

4. After a while, how did Filip and other Sonderkommandos regard anybody arriving at the crematorium?

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

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