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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Inferno.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of work were the members of Filip's group sent to do in Chapter 5?
(a) Drop the gas cannisters into the chambers.
(b) Dig pits.
(c) Clean latrines.
(d) Organize.

2. What drew Filip near the people of the Family Camp as they were in the changing room?
(a) It was his job to be there.
(b) His anger at them.
(c) A common language, religion and culture.
(d) To warn them one more time.

3. How did the Sonderkommando's doctor's wife try to follow him as he was being deported?
(a) She joined a crowd marked with the Star of David.
(b) She bribed an SS man.
(c) She clung to his legs and was dragged along.
(d) She sewed a Star of David onto her coat.

4. How many times had the prisoners already repeated Vacek's same command at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) 120 times.
(b) 100 times.
(c) Twice.
(d) 30 times.

5. What prisoner, experienced in organizing conspiracies, was transferred back to Auschwitz?
(a) Princip.
(b) Voss.
(c) Vladek.
(d) Gorges.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Filip's bunk mate in Chapter 1?

2. What genre does the story fall into?

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

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

5. When the SS men assembled about 2,000 people to the crematorium yard in Chapter 3, what did one man lead the people to do?

(see the answer key)

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