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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. Why were the prisoners of the Sonderkommando sent to live in the crematoria?
(a) So they would be right where they were needed.
(b) To treat them better than the others.
(c) As a whim of Moll's.
(d) To end contact with the rest of the camp.

2. Before the SS men poured the deadly gas crystals into the gas chamber, what did they do?
(a) Turned the hot water on for the showers.
(b) Turned on the truck engines.
(c) Told the people inside to lie down.
(d) Put on gas masks.

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

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

5. What was the inscription on the camp gate?
(a) "Camp Auschwitz."
(b) "Work Is Good For the Soul."
(c) "Heil Hitler."
(d) "Work liberates."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Filip do to quench his thirst on Sunday afternoon?

2. Who was the dead girl that Filip had to undress from his hometown?

3. What happened to the women in Block 10 at Auschwitz?

4. What did the SS threaten the prisoners of the Family Camp with after a few of them rushed toward the doors and were killed?

5. What is the Polish name for the town the Germans called Auschwitz?

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