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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 the Sonderkommandos have their own hospital?
(a) They were the elite prisoners.
(b) They tended to get sicker than the rest.
(c) To show the men some kindness.
(d) To treat the men in isolation.

2. Who was the man muttering to himself in the ranks next to Muller?
(a) A lawyer from Muller's hometown.
(b) A Rabbi that Muller once knew.
(c) An old school chum of Muller's.
(d) Muller's father.

3. Who was given the work of pulverizing the ashes of the bodies?
(a) Anyone available.
(b) Hungarian Jews.
(c) Greek Jews.
(d) Political prisoners.

4. What did Vacek do to the prisoner who was mumbling next to Muller?
(a) Reported him to Schlage.
(b) Shot him at point blank range.
(c) Beat him to death.
(d) Ordered him to the gas chamber.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which prisoners began arriving at the camp in the middle of May, 1944?

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

3. When hundred of prisoners were beaten and ordered to undress in the yard, what did Fischl do?

4. What was the place known as "Mexico"?

5. What did the SS men do as the prisoners from the Family Camp began to sing as they were pushed towards the gas chambers?

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