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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. What did prisoners Mordowicz and Rosin do?
(a) Fall into the pit that was being dug.
(b) Escape.
(c) Get sent to the gas chamber.
(d) Die of typhus.

2. What did a Block Senior receive as a reward for making prisoners keep the block clean?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) A reprieve from death.
(c) No beatings.
(d) An extra portion of soup.

3. What rank was Hauptsternfuhrer Hans Aumeier?
(a) Sergeant.
(b) Captain.
(c) Corporal.
(d) General.

4. Why were the SS men strictly forbidden to touch the belongings that were left behind by the dead prisoners?
(a) The things belonged to the enemy race.
(b) Stealing was morally wrong.
(c) Out of respect for the dead.
(d) The items might be dangerous.

5. What were Schwarzhuber and Dr. Mangele doing when Filip saw them through the open door of the gas chamber?
(a) Aiming their guns at people.
(b) Looking sadly at the people.
(c) Looking curiously inside.
(d) Cursing at the prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Voss' two weaknesses?

2. What did the word "organize" mean in the camp's slang?

3. When the Nazis invaded Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, where were the Jews first removed from?

4. Where did the majority of the people in the Family Camp come from?

5. What happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?

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