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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 SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?
(a) Orders to be still.
(b) A treasured cookie.
(c) Bread rations.
(d) Lashing with a whip.

2. Where were Filip and Maurice taken after being caught at the tea vats?
(a) Near the gallows area.
(b) Opposite the blockfuhrer's room.
(c) To Vacek's office.
(d) To the tower with Schlage.

3. 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 be assured that no corpses fell out of the truck.
(c) To make sure the weary prisoners did not escape in the night.
(d) To help them at their destination.

4. Who was the man muttering to himself in the ranks next to Muller?
(a) A Rabbi that Muller once knew.
(b) An old school chum of Muller's.
(c) A lawyer from Muller's hometown.
(d) Muller's father.

5. Who did the SS men believe to be responsible for the fire in the crematorium's chimney?
(a) Stark.
(b) Three prisoners who had refused to work anymore.
(c) Filip and Maurice.
(d) Vacek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who caught Muller at the cauldron of tea?

2. What was a Volksdeutscher?

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

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

5. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?

(see the answer key)

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