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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 did a female prisoner who was slowly stripping off her clothes do?
(a) Punched Quackernack in the groin.
(b) Slammed her high heel into Quackernack's forehead.
(c) Foamed at her mouth in madness.
(d) Ripped her skin with her fingernails.

2. Why were Filip and others made to stand among the crowd in Chapter 3 holding up letters of the alphabet?
(a) To make them believe they would be waiting for the train according to their name.
(b) To identify the bodies after the gassing.
(c) So the SS would know who each person was according to their name.
(d) To call each group of prisoners into the crematorium by last name.

3. Why were the prisoners so concerned about lice?
(a) The itching was unbearable.
(b) One infected louse could cause typhus and death.
(c) A prisoner with lice would be put in boiling hot water.
(d) Prisoners would be made to eat the lice.

4. What did the author overhear the prisoner next to him saying in Chapter 1?
(a) Prayers to God to save him.
(b) Curses at the Germans.
(c) Mumbles of disbelief at the happenings.
(d) Nonsensical mumbling.

5. As Filip waited for the return of Vacek and the others, what did he most fear might happen to him?
(a) Being castrated.
(b) Being struck on his bare buttocks.
(c) Being starved.
(d) Sport in the yard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Filip encounter when he went to Crematorium 3 for the first time?

2. What did a Block Senior receive as a reward for making prisoners keep the block clean?

3. What did the Hungarian Jews, waiting in line for their unanticipated deaths, crave desperately above all else?

4. Who was Vacek's second victim to be pulled out of the ranks?

5. What was an SS-Oberaufseherin?

(see the answer key)

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