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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 the emblem on the side of the truck that took the men back and forth to the mass grave?
(a) A skull and crossbones.
(b) A dove.
(c) The Nazi Swastika.
(d) The International Red Cross.

2. 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) Cried silently.
(d) Committed suicide.

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

4. What did the statement, "he has gone to the wire" refer to?
(a) The birds sitting on the wire fences.
(b) Someone who dared to climb the barbed-wire fence and fell.
(c) A prisoner who was killed by running into the electrified fence.
(d) A prisoner who escapes past the wired fence.

5. What did the people who were machine-gunned and gassed in Chapter 3 pay a lot of money to the Gestapo for?
(a) Imprisonment instead of death.
(b) Immigration to Paraguay.
(c) An escape to Switzerland.
(d) A comfortable train ride to Auschwitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the SS men assembled about 2,000 people to the crematorium yard in Chapter 3, what did one man lead the people to do?

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

3. What was eventually done with the two groups witnessing and helping with the gassing of prisoners in Chapter 2?

4. What were the people in the crematorium killed with?

5. What size was the cell that Filip and the others were brought to at the end of their eventful day in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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