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

2. How did patients who were brought to Birkenau from mental hospitals react to being told to undress before their execution?
(a) They resisted fiercely.
(b) With screams.
(c) With laughter.
(d) In different ways.

3. What weaponry had Filip's group acquired as of the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Shotguns and pistols.
(b) Machine guns, hand grenades and revolvers.
(c) Knives and hand grenades.
(d) Hand grenades, revolvers and pistols.

4. Why did Moll want the prisoners to dig a channel in the pit which sloped to either side?
(a) It made it easier to dig.
(b) To collect the corpses' fat.
(c) To cut down on the mud.
(d) More bodies would fit.

5. What was an Unterscharfuhrer?
(a) Sergeant.
(b) General.
(c) Corporal.
(d) Block clerk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the SS begin to burn in the crematorium ovens as the Soviet army drew closer to the camp?

2. Who gave Filip bread and tobacco upon recognizing him from Birkenau?

3. When one of the Sonderkommandos told a woman he recognized that she was about to be gassed to death, what did she do?

4. While Filip waited in the gas chamber, who did he learn had committed suicide?

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

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