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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 many times had the prisoners already repeated Vacek's same command at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) 100 times.
(b) Twice.
(c) 30 times.
(d) 120 times.

2. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?
(a) Kurschuss.
(b) Gorges.
(c) Mietek.
(d) Dajan.

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

4. What is the name of the town that Filip Muller is from?
(a) Sered.
(b) Presburg.
(c) Trnava.
(d) Trencin.

5. What genre does the story fall into?
(a) Biography.
(b) Mystery.
(c) Memoir.
(d) Novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a bum-boy?

2. From what point of view is the story told?

3. What plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?

4. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?

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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