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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. Who was called the "Angel of Death" by the men in the Sonderkommando?
(a) Hossler.
(b) Hustek.
(c) Voss.
(d) Gorges.

2. Why was the uprising suddenly called off?
(a) The weather had turned.
(b) It was never found out why.
(c) The partisans were being inspected by the Gestapo.
(d) There were problems with the Canada team.

3. What happened to the women in Block 10 at Auschwitz?
(a) They were treated fairly well.
(b) They were raped.
(c) They were left to die.
(d) They were sterilized.

4. What were the people in the crematorium killed with?
(a) Electric shocks.
(b) Machine guns.
(c) Poison gas.
(d) Lethal injections.

5. Why was Crematorium 5 being beautified with white-washed walls?
(a) To impress officials overseeing exterminations.
(b) To further fool prisoners going to their deaths.
(c) To keep prisoners at work doing something.
(d) To be used as SS staff headquarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?

2. What was a Volksdeutscher?

3. What did Vacek force the prisoners to do that he had pulled out of the ranks?

4. How many times had the prisoners already repeated Vacek's same command at the beginning of Chapter 1?

5. Why did Filip assume that a car with its headlamps on was driving behind the truck with the prisoners and the corpses?

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