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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 help them at their destination.
(c) To make sure the weary prisoners did not escape in the night.
(d) To be assured that no corpses fell out of the truck.

2. 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) Go back to the camp.
(c) Throw the corpses into the pit.
(d) Dig a bigger pit.

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

4. What was one of Vacek's commands to the lined-up prisoners in the yard of Block 11?
(a) "Silence now!"
(b) "Forward march!"
(c) "Attention!"
(d) "Caps off!"

5. What was the title given to Filip's working party by Stark?
(a) Fischl Team.
(b) Auschwitz Army.
(c) Jews.
(d) Muller People.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were Filip and the others ordered to do with the clothing left behind by those just murdered in the crematorium?

3. What worried Filip so much about a cut on his pinkie finger?

4. Who was Schlage?

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

(see the answer key)

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