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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. How did prisoners have to do their weekly shaving?
(a) With cold water, no soap and blunt razors.
(b) With tiny scissors.
(c) WIthout any water.
(d) With the edges of cutting knives.

2. How did the SS treat the members of the Family Camp as they were entering the crematorium yard?
(a) As though they were in no danger.
(b) With undisguised cruelty.
(c) WIth dignity.
(d) Fairly.

3. How long did it take a prisoner's body to burn in the oven?
(a) One day.
(b) Four hours.
(c) Five minutes.
(d) Twenty minutes.

4. What did Moll use to test that the channel in the pit did what it was supposed to do?
(a) Buckets of water.
(b) Fat from a freshly-killed cow.
(c) One of the prisoners.
(d) A dead body.

5. Who was given the work of pulverizing the ashes of the bodies?
(a) Political prisoners.
(b) Hungarian Jews.
(c) Greek Jews.
(d) Anyone available.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Filip give to Alfred Wetzler before his escape?

2. Why did the Sonderkommandos have their own hospital?

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

4. What did the German word Artfremden mean?

5. What prisoner, experienced in organizing conspiracies, was transferred back to Auschwitz?

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