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

2. What was Auschwitz fashion?
(a) Imitating the SS through dress.
(b) Having a shaved head to avoid lice.
(c) Wearing striped suits.
(d) A coat with pockets for "organizing".

3. What was the title given to Filip's working party by Stark?
(a) Jews.
(b) Auschwitz Army.
(c) Fischl Team.
(d) Muller People.

4. Why did Filip assume that a car with its headlamps on was driving behind the truck with the prisoners and the corpses?
(a) To help light the way for the truck.
(b) To make sure the weary prisoners did not escape in the night.
(c) To be assured that no corpses fell out of the truck.
(d) To help them at their destination.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the women in Block 10 at Auschwitz?

2. Where did Stark bring Maurice and Filip after they were caught stealing tea?

3. Why were the prisoners so concerned about lice?

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

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