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

2. Where was it most difficult for a prisoner to go?
(a) Ouside.
(b) The women's camp.
(c) The crematorium.
(d) The black wall.

3. What were SS men most likely to be bribed with?
(a) Sex, gold and dollars.
(b) Gold, diamonds and deutsche marks.
(c) Gold, dollars and diamonds.
(d) Drugs, diamonds and dollars.

4. What was one of Vacek's commands to the lined-up prisoners in the yard of Block 11?
(a) "Caps off!"
(b) "Silence now!"
(c) "Attention!"
(d) "Forward march!"

5. Why were the prisoners so concerned about lice?
(a) Prisoners would be made to eat the lice.
(b) A prisoner with lice would be put in boiling hot water.
(c) One infected louse could cause typhus and death.
(d) The itching was unbearable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a bum-boy?

2. Who pretended to be a representative of the Foreign Ministry to a crowd of people about to be gassed to death?

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

4. When half of the crowd at the end of Chapter 3 were behind the door of the crematorium, what was the other half, still dressed, doing?

5. Where did one of Filip's team find a hand grenade?

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