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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. Why was Serge so angry at Dr. Pach for giving medical treatment to prisoners?
(a) He wanted Dr. Pach's job.
(b) He believed all prisoners were faking it.
(c) He had been beaten because the sick rate was too high.
(d) He was sick and had not been treated.

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

3. What was the inscription on the camp gate?
(a) "Heil Hitler."
(b) "Camp Auschwitz."
(c) "Work liberates."
(d) "Work Is Good For the Soul."

4. Who caught Muller at the cauldron of tea?
(a) Vacek.
(b) Schlage.
(c) Vacek and Schlage.
(d) Vacek, Schlage and an SS leader.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did almost every prisoner in the Sonderkommando spend a great deal of time doing?

2. Why were the SS men so concerned when they saw the bodies in the pit in the daylight?

3. What was a bum-boy?

4. What did the SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?

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

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