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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 a bum-boy?
(a) A prisoner who lost the will to live.
(b) Someone who served Kapos and block seniors.
(c) A bookkeeper.
(d) A Polish prisoner.

2. How was the crowd treated by the "representative of the Foreign Ministry"?
(a) Very politely.
(b) As though they were Aryan citizens of the Reich.
(c) Brutally.
(d) With roughness and sarcasm.

3. Where did Stark bring Maurice and Filip after they were caught stealing tea?
(a) To see Schlage.
(b) The crematorium.
(c) The bunks.
(d) The gulley to drink.

4. Who did Filip notice in the front rank of the Sonderkommando group he was in at Birkenau?
(a) Bruck.
(b) Mietek.
(c) Vicek.
(d) Fischl.

5. When half of the crowd at the end of Chapter 3 were behind the door of the crematorium, what was the other half, still dressed, doing?
(a) Praying aloud the same prayers.
(b) Protesting to the SS.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Whispering to each other about an escape plan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What worried Filip so much about a cut on his pinkie finger?

2. Why were the SS men so concerned when they saw the bodies in the pit in the daylight?

3. Who was the doctor in charge of the Sonderkommando hospital in Birkenau?

4. Why couldn't the fires for the burning of the corpses in the pits be lit at night?

5. Where were Filip and Maurice taken after being caught at the tea vats?

(see the answer key)

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