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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. Why was Roehrig, a block senior, transferred to a penal company?
(a) He stole a gold chain.
(b) He refused to use a truncheon on prisoners.
(c) He tried to help some Family Camp members escape.
(d) He would not have his head shaved.

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

3. How long did the process of incineration in the pit take?
(a) A week.
(b) Days.
(c) Twelve hours.
(d) Five to six hours.

4. Who decided, with a plan to help, that the Family Camp must be warned at once about their impending doom?
(a) Wetzler.
(b) Muller.
(c) Kaminski.
(d) Schoen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times had the prisoners already repeated Vacek's same command at the beginning of Chapter 1?

2. What was the prisoners' nickname for Hoss?

3. Who was Schlage?

4. When the Nazis invaded Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, where were the Jews first removed from?

5. Where was it most difficult for a prisoner to go?

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