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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Into the Crematorium.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the statement, "he has gone to the wire" refer to?
(a) The birds sitting on the wire fences.
(b) A prisoner who was killed by running into the electrified fence.
(c) Someone who dared to climb the barbed-wire fence and fell.
(d) A prisoner who escapes past the wired fence.

3. What worried Filip so much about a cut on his pinkie finger?
(a) Bleeding to death.
(b) Stark seeing his wound.
(c) Tetanus.
(d) Ptomaine poisoning.

4. Who was the dead girl that Filip had to undress from his hometown?
(a) Yasmin Belath.
(b) Vlasta Sered.
(c) Yolanda Weiss.
(d) Yolana Weis.

5. Who was Schlage?
(a) A prisoner who escaped.
(b) An SS officer watching Vacek.
(c) A relative of Vacek's.
(d) A Nazi General about to arrive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were Filip and the others ordered to do with the clothing left behind by those just murdered in the crematorium?

3. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?

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

5. What happened to Filip and the others as they were driven past the town of Auschwitz with the corpses?

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