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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 Moll use to test that the channel in the pit did what it was supposed to do?
(a) One of the prisoners.
(b) Fat from a freshly-killed cow.
(c) A dead body.
(d) Buckets of water.

2. Who decided, with a plan to help, that the Family Camp must be warned at once about their impending doom?
(a) Schoen.
(b) Kaminski.
(c) Wetzler.
(d) Muller.

3. What happened to the Sonderkommando who told a woman in the crowd they were all to be exterminated?
(a) He was gassed with the crowd.
(b) He was put into the general population.
(c) He was shot to death.
(d) He was burned alive in front of the others.

4. Why were the prisoners of the Sonderkommando at first kept away from the last group of prisoners to be killed in Chapter 3?
(a) The sight was too gruesome.
(b) To ensure the safety of the prisoners.
(c) So they would not have a chance to speak with them.
(d) There were not enough people to warrant their involvement.

5. Why were the SS men strictly forbidden to touch the belongings that were left behind by the dead prisoners?
(a) The items might be dangerous.
(b) The things belonged to the enemy race.
(c) Stealing was morally wrong.
(d) Out of respect for the dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the SS men do as the prisoners from the Family Camp began to sing as they were pushed towards the gas chambers?

2. What was compulsory on a Sunday afternoon?

3. What did Vacek do to the prisoner who was mumbling next to Muller?

4. What were Schwarzhuber and Dr. Mangele doing when Filip saw them through the open door of the gas chamber?

5. How many Red Army prisoners of war were left alive by January, 1945, out of the 13,000 taken?

(see the answer key)

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