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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 drew Filip near the people of the Family Camp as they were in the changing room?
(a) It was his job to be there.
(b) A common language, religion and culture.
(c) To warn them one more time.
(d) His anger at them.

2. What genre does the story fall into?
(a) Biography.
(b) Novel.
(c) Mystery.
(d) Memoir.

3. What rank was Hauptsternfuhrer Hans Aumeier?
(a) General.
(b) Captain.
(c) Sergeant.
(d) Corporal.

4. Why did a prisoner approach Schlage as Schlage looked over the ranks of men?
(a) To show him his wounds.
(b) To complain about Vacek's murders.
(c) To beg for mercy.
(d) He asked for more food for the men.

5. Why did Filip assume that a car with its headlamps on was driving behind the truck with the prisoners and the corpses?
(a) To help light the way for the truck.
(b) To make sure the weary prisoners did not escape in the night.
(c) To help them at their destination.
(d) To be assured that no corpses fell out of the truck.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the SS men assembled about 2,000 people to the crematorium yard in Chapter 3, what did one man lead the people to do?

3. What did the word "organize" mean in the camp's slang?

4. What did a female prisoner who was slowly stripping off her clothes do?

5. When the Sonderkommando members asked the Resistance in the camp to plan a mass escape, what were they told?

(see the answer key)

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