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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. After the SS men, Aumeier and Grabner, convened as to the viability of the pit they had driven to, what were the prisoners ordered to do?
(a) Take a short nap.
(b) Dig a bigger pit.
(c) Go back to the camp.
(d) Throw the corpses into the pit.

2. What happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?
(a) They were murdered in their hiding places.
(b) Many of them made it to freedom.
(c) They were often forgetten and starved to death.
(d) They were caught by police dogs and executed.

3. What was a Volksdeutscher?
(a) A believer in the German tradition.
(b) A follower of Hitler.
(c) A person born and bred in Germany.
(d) An ethnic German.

4. What did Filip encounter when he went to Crematorium 3 for the first time?
(a) Women's hair being shaved off their heads.
(b) Women's hair drying on the brick floor.
(c) Hair being made into wigs.
(d) Stray hairs blowing in the wind.

5. What was the quarrel between Mietek and Fischl over?
(a) Whether prayers could be said.
(b) The food rations.
(c) Who worked the hardest.
(d) Who should be Kapo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Polish name for the town the Germans called Auschwitz?

2. What were the people in the crematorium killed with?

3. What did the people who were machine-gunned and gassed in Chapter 3 pay a lot of money to the Gestapo for?

4. What was the name for a prisoner entrusted with special duties by the SS?

5. What was the emblem on the side of the truck that took the men back and forth to the mass grave?

(see the answer key)

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