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

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

3. How long did it take a prisoner's body to burn in the oven?
(a) Four hours.
(b) Twenty minutes.
(c) Five minutes.
(d) One day.

4. What did the SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?
(a) Bread rations.
(b) Orders to be still.
(c) Lashing with a whip.
(d) A treasured cookie.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name for a prisoner entrusted with special duties by the SS?

3. What was the emblem on the side of the truck that took the men back and forth to the mass grave?

4. What is the name of the town that Filip Muller is from?

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

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