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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 Filip and the others ordered to do with the clothing left behind by those just murdered in the crematorium?
(a) Sort them into separate piles.
(b) Give them to the next crowd coming out.
(c) Burn them.
(d) Place them on the dead bodies.

2. What did the SS threaten the prisoners of the Family Camp with after a few of them rushed toward the doors and were killed?
(a) Machine guns.
(b) Small-bore rifles.
(c) Electrocution.
(d) Torture.

3. What happened to Filip and the others as they were driven past the town of Auschwitz with the corpses?
(a) They began to have severe panic attacks.
(b) They were given more bread by the driver.
(c) They fell off the truck.
(d) They were pinned down by the corpses' movement.

4. What were SS men most likely to be bribed with?
(a) Drugs, diamonds and dollars.
(b) Sex, gold and dollars.
(c) Gold, diamonds and deutsche marks.
(d) Gold, dollars and diamonds.

5. After a while, how did Filip and other Sonderkommandos regard anybody arriving at the crematorium?
(a) With a glimmer of hope that someone would make it out alive.
(b) As though they were family.
(c) As doomed to die.
(d) As a victim of their own doing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?

2. What was "Canada" in the camp?

3. Why were the prisoners of the Sonderkommando sent to live in the crematoria?

4. Why were the people in the Family Camp asked to write letters to family and friends days before their extermination?

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

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