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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 happened to the Sonderkommando who told a woman in the crowd they were all to be exterminated?
(a) He was shot to death.
(b) He was burned alive in front of the others.
(c) He was gassed with the crowd.
(d) He was put into the general population.

2. What did the green triangle on the uniform of the block clerk, Vacek, signify?
(a) He was a former professional criminal.
(b) He was a German soldier.
(c) He was a former Christian who converted to Judaism.
(d) He was Jewish.

3. What did Vacek order to be done with the tea that the prisoners were to drink?
(a) Have it thrown into the gully-drain.
(b) It was to be used for the evening's bath.
(c) It would be sent back to be used the next day.
(d) Have it thrown into the men's faces.

4. What was Sonderbehandlung?
(a) Secret code word for murdering.
(b) Selection for extermination.
(c) Lance sergeant.
(d) Penal company.

5. Before the SS men poured the deadly gas crystals into the gas chamber, what did they do?
(a) Put on gas masks.
(b) Turned on the truck engines.
(c) Turned the hot water on for the showers.
(d) Told the people inside to lie down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Filip and the others throw on top of the mountain of bodies in the pit?

2. What did Filip imagine might be done to him if they tied his hands behind his back?

3. What did Filip do to quench his thirst on Sunday afternoon?

4. Why did the Sonderkommandos have their own hospital?

5. What was one of Vacek's commands to the lined-up prisoners in the yard of Block 11?

(see the answer key)

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