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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 did the SS begin to burn in the crematorium ovens as the Soviet army drew closer to the camp?
(a) Prisoners' clothing.
(b) Any bedsheets or blankets found.
(c) Scores of documents.
(d) Their own uniforms.

2. Who was the dead girl that Filip had to undress from his hometown?
(a) Yolana Weis.
(b) Yolanda Weiss.
(c) Yasmin Belath.
(d) Vlasta Sered.

3. What was Sonderbehandlung?
(a) Selection for extermination.
(b) Lance sergeant.
(c) Secret code word for murdering.
(d) Penal company.

4. What did the contents of the note that Voss received in Chapter 4 tell him to do?
(a) Release the inmates of the Family Camp.
(b) Make room for the arrival of another Family.
(c) Deconstruct the Family Camp the following week.
(d) Gas the inmates of the Family Camp.

5. What happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?
(a) They were often forgetten and starved to death.
(b) They were caught by police dogs and executed.
(c) Many of them made it to freedom.
(d) They were murdered in their hiding places.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of Vacek's commands to the lined-up prisoners in the yard of Block 11?

2. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?

3. Why did Filip assume that a car with its headlamps on was driving behind the truck with the prisoners and the corpses?

4. Who was given the work of pulverizing the ashes of the bodies?

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

(see the answer key)

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