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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. What was the job of the block clerk?
(a) To record data and movements of prisoners.
(b) To keep track of the spending of money.
(c) To count all of the gold teeth coming into the camp.
(d) To block prisoner's movements around the camp.

2. What was a Kapo?
(a) The officer in command.
(b) A prisoner in charge of a working party.
(c) The German officer who kept the peace among prisoners.
(d) A German citizen.

3. What was the name of Filip's bunk mate in Chapter 1?
(a) Morris.
(b) Michael.
(c) Manny.
(d) Maurice.

4. What happened to Filip and the others as they were driven past the town of Auschwitz with the corpses?
(a) They were given more bread by the driver.
(b) They were pinned down by the corpses' movement.
(c) They began to have severe panic attacks.
(d) They fell off the truck.

5. After the SS men, Aumeier and Grabner, convened as to the viability of the pit they had driven to, what were the prisoners ordered to do?
(a) Take a short nap.
(b) Throw the corpses into the pit.
(c) Go back to the camp.
(d) Dig a bigger pit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?

3. Why were the prisoners so concerned about lice?

4. What was eventually done with the two groups witnessing and helping with the gassing of prisoners in Chapter 2?

5. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?

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