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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 midday meal for prisoners?
(a) A thin soup.
(b) Boiled potatoes.
(c) Bread and water.
(d) Sausage.

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

3. What did Filip imagine might be done to him if they tied his hands behind his back?
(a) He would be left in a hole to die.
(b) He would then be suspended by his fastened hands.
(c) They would then cut his hands off.
(d) He would have to perform his work like that.

4. What happened to the gold teeth pulled from the mouths of those gassed?
(a) They were hoarded by the SS.
(b) They were melted and formed into bars.
(c) They were sent to the Nazi front ranks.
(d) Most of them were organized by the Sonderkommando.

5. How long did Filip live in Block 11 in Auschwitz before being sent to Birkenau?
(a) Fourteen months.
(b) Six months.
(c) A year.
(d) Three years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Schlage?

2. What was eventually done with the two groups witnessing and helping with the gassing of prisoners in Chapter 2?

3. What worried Filip so much about a cut on his pinkie finger?

4. Who did the SS men believe to be responsible for the fire in the crematorium's chimney?

5. When one of the Sonderkommandos told a woman he recognized that she was about to be gassed to death, what did she do?

(see the answer key)

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