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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. How did prisoners have to do their weekly shaving?
(a) With tiny scissors.
(b) With the edges of cutting knives.
(c) With cold water, no soap and blunt razors.
(d) WIthout any water.

2. Why did Filip assume that a car with its headlamps on was driving behind the truck with the prisoners and the corpses?
(a) To be assured that no corpses fell out of the truck.
(b) To help light the way for the truck.
(c) To make sure the weary prisoners did not escape in the night.
(d) To help them at their destination.

3. Who was Fischl?
(a) One of the SS soldiers.
(b) The inmate who cleaned the oven grates.
(c) The inmate who refused to remove a corpse's gold teeth.
(d) The guard in charge of the crematorium.

4. Why did Fischl get so upset with the other prisoners while he recited the Kaddish?
(a) The others were eating while he prayed.
(b) They talked while he tried to pray.
(c) He couldn't remember the words.
(d) The others made fun of him.

5. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?
(a) Spoke to Obersturmfuhrer Weber.
(b) Pleaded with Mietek.
(c) Bribed the Kapo.
(d) Smuggled him in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the job of the block clerk?

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

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

4. What was compulsory on a Sunday afternoon?

5. As Filip waited for the return of Vacek and the others, what did he most fear might happen to him?

(see the answer key)

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