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

2. Why were the prisoners who were forced to participate in the preparations for the exterminations separated into two groups at first?
(a) To prevent detailed knowledge of the methods being used.
(b) To give them intimate knowledge of the methods being used.
(c) To separate men from women.
(d) In case some of them died.

3. What did the SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?
(a) A treasured cookie.
(b) Bread rations.
(c) Orders to be still.
(d) Lashing with a whip.

4. What did Maurice and Filip do with the crowbars and hammers Stark gave them?
(a) Damage the fire-brick lining.
(b) LIft the corpses.
(c) Attack Stark.
(d) Open the gates of the oven.

5. What did Filip and the others throw on top of the mountain of bodies in the pit?
(a) Chlorinated lime.
(b) Dirty snow.
(c) The clothes of the dead.
(d) Blankets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?

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

3. What was the inscription on the camp gate?

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

5. How was the crowd treated by the "representative of the Foreign Ministry"?

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