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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 quarrel between Mietek and Fischl over?
(a) Whether prayers could be said.
(b) The food rations.
(c) Who should be Kapo.
(d) Who worked the hardest.

2. 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 shot to death.
(c) He was burned alive in front of the others.
(d) He was put into the general population.

3. In Chapter 3, when a crowd of 1,000 people undressed, what did they begin to do when they realized they would be killed?
(a) Nothing.
(b) They began to dress again.
(c) Threw their clothing at the German soldiers.
(d) Cried and prayed silently.

4. What was eventually done with the two groups witnessing and helping with the gassing of prisoners in Chapter 2?
(a) They were further separated into three groups.
(b) They were killed and replaced.
(c) They were put together as a crematorium working party.
(d) They were caught joking about the process.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take a prisoner's body to burn in the oven?

2. Why did Fischl get so upset with the other prisoners while he recited the Kaddish?

3. What did the contents of the note that Voss received in Chapter 4 tell him to do?

4. What was a "mussulman"?

5. How did the Family Camp react to the news that they would be gassed?

(see the answer key)

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