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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, No Return.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name for a prisoner entrusted with special duties by the SS?
(a) Kapo.
(b) Scharfuhrer.
(c) Oberaufseherin.
(d) Funktionshaftling.

2. Who caught Muller at the cauldron of tea?
(a) Vacek and Schlage.
(b) Vacek, Schlage and an SS leader.
(c) Vacek.
(d) Schlage.

3. What was the job of the block clerk?
(a) To keep track of the spending of money.
(b) To count all of the gold teeth coming into the camp.
(c) To record data and movements of prisoners.
(d) To block prisoner's movements around the camp.

4. Why were the prisoners so concerned about lice?
(a) A prisoner with lice would be put in boiling hot water.
(b) One infected louse could cause typhus and death.
(c) The itching was unbearable.
(d) Prisoners would be made to eat the lice.

5. What did Vacek do to the prisoner who was mumbling next to Muller?
(a) Ordered him to the gas chamber.
(b) Shot him at point blank range.
(c) Reported him to Schlage.
(d) Beat him to death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author overhear the prisoner next to him saying in Chapter 1?

2. What happened to the women in Block 10 at Auschwitz?

3. What was the job of a block orderly?

4. What did Filip do to quench his thirst on Sunday afternoon?

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

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