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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. What were the people in the crematorium killed with?
(a) Machine guns.
(b) Electric shocks.
(c) Poison gas.
(d) Lethal injections.

2. Why were the prisoners of the Sonderkommando sent to live in the crematoria?
(a) So they would be right where they were needed.
(b) To end contact with the rest of the camp.
(c) As a whim of Moll's.
(d) To treat them better than the others.

3. What piece of evidence concerning the death camp did Filip obtain for the Resistance?
(a) The note about the Family Camp.
(b) Labels from Zyclon B gas tins.
(c) Ashes from the ovens.
(d) Women's hair.

4. Filip had one regret as he stood in the gas chamber, ready to die. What was it?
(a) He did not write a will.
(b) He did not help one person to get out alive.
(c) He forgot to say goodbye to the others.
(d) He did not have the hand grenades.

5. How did the Sonderkommando's doctor's wife try to follow him as he was being deported?
(a) She sewed a Star of David onto her coat.
(b) She clung to his legs and was dragged along.
(c) She joined a crowd marked with the Star of David.
(d) She bribed an SS man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was SS-Untersturmfuhrer Max Grabner?

2. What did the SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?

3. When half of the crowd at the end of Chapter 3 were behind the door of the crematorium, what was the other half, still dressed, doing?

4. Who was the dead girl that Filip had to undress from his hometown?

5. What was a blockfuhrer?

(see the answer key)

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