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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Into the Crematorium.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Filip assume that a car with its headlamps on was driving behind the truck with the prisoners and the corpses?
(a) To help light the way for the truck.
(b) To make sure the weary prisoners did not escape in the night.
(c) To be assured that no corpses fell out of the truck.
(d) To help them at their destination.

2. What is the name of the town that Filip Muller is from?
(a) Trnava.
(b) Sered.
(c) Presburg.
(d) Trencin.

3. What was the job of a block orderly?
(a) Keeping prisoners from fighting.
(b) Keeping the block clean and tidy.
(c) Running messages back and forth.
(d) Relaying news to prisoners.

4. How many times had the prisoners already repeated Vacek's same command at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) 30 times.
(b) 120 times.
(c) 100 times.
(d) Twice.

5. How did prisoners have to do their weekly shaving?
(a) WIthout any water.
(b) With the edges of cutting knives.
(c) With cold water, no soap and blunt razors.
(d) With tiny scissors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was an Unterscharfuhrer?

2. What gave Filip some solace as his father's remains were burned in the crematorium?

3. What did Vacek force the prisoners to do that he had pulled out of the ranks?

4. Who was the man muttering to himself in the ranks next to Muller?

5. What was the title given to Filip's working party by Stark?

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