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

2. What was the ultimate fate of the prisoners that Vacek pulled out of the ranks?
(a) They were sent to the gas chamber.
(b) They were beaten to death with truncheons.
(c) They were fed to increase their strength.
(d) They were shot on the spot.

3. When hundred of prisoners were beaten and ordered to undress in the yard, what did Fischl do?
(a) Cried loudly.
(b) Objected.
(c) Prayed.
(d) Cursed.

4. 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) Hair being made into wigs.
(d) Women's hair being shaved off their heads.

5. Where did one of Filip's team find a hand grenade?
(a) In Bunker 1.
(b) In the pocket of a dead Ukranian SS man.
(c) In the new Birkenau crematoria.
(d) In an urn at Auschwitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Filip waited for the return of Vacek and the others, what did he most fear might happen to him?

2. What was a Volksdeutscher?

3. Who was the dead girl that Filip had to undress from his hometown?

4. What was the job of a block orderly?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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