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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. While Filip waited in the gas chamber, who did he learn had committed suicide?
(a) Langer.
(b) Daniel Ostbaum.
(c) Fredi Hirsch.
(d) Maurice.

2. Where did Filip hide while the SS stopped the uprising and put out the fire of Crematorium 4?
(a) Under a dead body.
(b) On the roof of Crematorium 5.
(c) In one of the pits.
(d) In a chimney flue.

3. What did Vacek force the prisoners to do that he had pulled out of the ranks?
(a) Run, following commands, or get beaten.
(b) Crawl to the infirmary.
(c) The work of the other prisoners.
(d) 100 push ups.

4. What did the term "selection" mean at Birkenau and other camps?
(a) Extermination.
(b) Advance in rank.
(c) Chosen for a special job.
(d) Being sent to an isolation cell.

5. What did the statement, "he has gone to the wire" refer to?
(a) A prisoner who was killed by running into the electrified fence.
(b) A prisoner who escapes past the wired fence.
(c) Someone who dared to climb the barbed-wire fence and fell.
(d) The birds sitting on the wire fences.

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. What did the SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?

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

4. What did the Sonderkommando prisoners purchase with the items they organized?

5. What was the inscription on the camp gate?

(see the answer key)

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