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

2. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?
(a) None.
(b) One blanket.
(c) One and an extra if it was very cold.
(d) One blanket was shared by two prisoners.

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

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

5. After the SS men, Aumeier and Grabner, convened as to the viability of the pit they had driven to, what were the prisoners ordered to do?
(a) Dig a bigger pit.
(b) Take a short nap.
(c) Throw the corpses into the pit.
(d) Go back to the camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vacek do to the prisoner who was mumbling next to Muller?

2. What was the rank of a Rottenfuhrer?

3. What was the only Polish word that Aumeier learned in order to make himself understood by his victims?

4. From what point of view is the story told?

5. What was the name for a prisoner entrusted with special duties by the SS?

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