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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. How long did Filip live in Block 11 in Auschwitz before being sent to Birkenau?
(a) Three years.
(b) Fourteen months.
(c) Six months.
(d) A year.

2. What did a female prisoner who was slowly stripping off her clothes do?
(a) Foamed at her mouth in madness.
(b) Ripped her skin with her fingernails.
(c) Punched Quackernack in the groin.
(d) Slammed her high heel into Quackernack's forehead.

3. What did the word "organize" mean in the camp's slang?
(a) To give orders to prisoners.
(b) To steal.
(c) To clean.
(d) To order goods.

4. 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) Nothing.
(b) Threw their clothing at the German soldiers.
(c) Cried and prayed silently.
(d) They began to dress again.

5. What was the view for the prisoners when they were moved from the dungeon to Cell 13?
(a) The entrace to the women's camp.
(b) The guard towers.
(c) A field of grass.
(d) The area where executions took place.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the prisoners who were forced to participate in the preparations for the exterminations separated into two groups at first?

2. Where was it most difficult for a prisoner to go?

3. Why did Filip assume that a car with its headlamps on was driving behind the truck with the prisoners and the corpses?

4. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?

5. Why were Filip and others made to stand among the crowd in Chapter 3 holding up letters of the alphabet?

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