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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 was the midday meal for prisoners?
(a) Sausage.
(b) A thin soup.
(c) Boiled potatoes.
(d) Bread and water.

2. Why did Moll want the prisoners to dig a channel in the pit which sloped to either side?
(a) To collect the corpses' fat.
(b) It made it easier to dig.
(c) More bodies would fit.
(d) To cut down on the mud.

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

4. Who did the SS men believe to be responsible for the fire in the crematorium's chimney?
(a) Vacek.
(b) Three prisoners who had refused to work anymore.
(c) Filip and Maurice.
(d) Stark.

5. What did many of the children from the Gypsy camp die from?
(a) Anemia.
(b) Leukemia.
(c) Beatings.
(d) Noma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?

2. What did the people who were machine-gunned and gassed in Chapter 3 pay a lot of money to the Gestapo for?

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

4. How did patients who were brought to Birkenau from mental hospitals react to being told to undress before their execution?

5. What was a Kapo?

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