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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 gave Filip some solace as his father's remains were burned in the crematorium?
(a) He knew that he had helped him all he could.
(b) His father did not suffer.
(c) His father has gone to a better place.
(d) A teammate recited Kaddish.

2. What did the term "selection" mean at Birkenau and other camps?
(a) Being sent to an isolation cell.
(b) Advance in rank.
(c) Chosen for a special job.
(d) Extermination.

3. What plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?
(a) Escape in the middle of the night.
(b) Bribe every SS man that they knew would help them out.
(c) Inform the next Polish transport of their imminent death.
(d) Build an underground tunnel.

4. What did the 300 Sonderkommando prisoners chosen for extermination do in the crematoria yard in Chapter 5?
(a) Throw stones at the SS guards.
(b) Walk slowly to their fate.
(c) Beg for their lives.
(d) Curse the Kapo who chose them.

5. What was the only Polish word that Aumeier learned in order to make himself understood by his victims?
(a) Ide (go).
(b) Kota (cat).
(c) Szybko (faster).
(d) Psa (dog).

Short Answer Questions

1. What was an Unterscharfuhrer?

2. What was Auschwitz fashion?

3. What drew Filip near the people of the Family Camp as they were in the changing room?

4. While Filip waited in the gas chamber, who did he learn had committed suicide?

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

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