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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Andor Gutman explains that "Sonderkommando" means "special detail." What horrific "special detail" did Andor Gutman say members of the Sonderkommando had to perform?
(a) Extract gold teeth from dead prisoners.
(b) Check the cesspools of the latrines to make sure no prisoners were hiding there.
(c) Condemn persons into the gas chambers and then remove their dead bodies.
(d) Ensure that Jewish children removed all their clothing before entering the gas chamber.

2. Andor Gutman tells the narrator that music played through the loud speakers all day long at the prison camp, but was occasionally interrupted by the phrase, "Leichentrager zu Wache." What does "Leichentrager zu Wache" mean?
(a) Take cover because the camp was going to be bombed.
(b) Corpse-carriers to the guardhouse.
(c) Prisoners return to work.
(d) A train filled with prisoners is arriving.

3. The narrator is a native of which country?
(a) Israel.
(b) The United States.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Germany.

4. What made Goebbels think that Abraham Lincoln might be Jewish?
(a) He was sympathetic to non-whites.
(b) "Abraham" sounds like a Jewish name.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He looked Jewish in his photographs.

5. Who was Rudolph Franz Hoess?
(a) The Commandant of Auschwitz.
(b) The Nazi Minister of Propaganda.
(c) Howard Campbell's defense attorney.
(d) The director of the Haifa Institute for Documentation of War Criminals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which characteristic does NOT describe Howard W. Campbell, Jr.'s father?

2. Which city does the narrator say was "Hell" or "Purgatory" for him?

3. Bernard Mengel, who guards the narrator at night, tells the narrator he does what in his sleep?

4. Arpad Kovacs despises Jews who did not do what?

5. The narrator tells Epstein's mother that "auf wiedersehen" means "goodbye" in German, but she corrects him by telling him it more precisely means:

(see the answer key)

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