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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 took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?
(a) Mietek.
(b) Dajan.
(c) Gorges.
(d) Kurschuss.

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 was the quarrel between Mietek and Fischl over?
(a) Whether prayers could be said.
(b) The food rations.
(c) Who worked the hardest.
(d) Who should be Kapo.

4. What was one of Vacek's commands to the lined-up prisoners in the yard of Block 11?
(a) "Caps off!"
(b) "Forward march!"
(c) "Silence now!"
(d) "Attention!"

5. What did Filip imagine might be done to him if they tied his hands behind his back?
(a) He would have to perform his work like that.
(b) They would then cut his hands off.
(c) He would be left in a hole to die.
(d) He would then be suspended by his fastened hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Filip "..it is vital that you should see everything, experience everything, go through everything and consciously record everything in your mind"?

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

3. Why were Filip and others made to stand among the crowd in Chapter 3 holding up letters of the alphabet?

4. After a while, how did Filip and other Sonderkommandos regard anybody arriving at the crematorium?

5. As Filip considered what his life would be like if he survived the war, he thought of running into the FS men. Who were they?

(see the answer key)

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