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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Into the Crematorium.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a Kapo?
(a) A German citizen.
(b) A prisoner in charge of a working party.
(c) The officer in command.
(d) The German officer who kept the peace among prisoners.

2. What did the statement, "he has gone to the wire" refer to?
(a) A prisoner who escapes past the wired fence.
(b) Someone who dared to climb the barbed-wire fence and fell.
(c) A prisoner who was killed by running into the electrified fence.
(d) The birds sitting on the wire fences.

3. Who was SS-Untersturmfuhrer Max Grabner?
(a) Master of the main camp.
(b) Top sergeant of the SS.
(c) Chief of the Gestapo's political department.
(d) Chief of the crematorium operations.

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

5. What did Maurice and Filip do with the crowbars and hammers Stark gave them?
(a) Damage the fire-brick lining.
(b) Attack Stark.
(c) Open the gates of the oven.
(d) LIft the corpses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the view for the prisoners when they were moved from the dungeon to Cell 13?

2. What was the midday meal for prisoners?

3. What were Filip and the others ordered to do with the clothing left behind by those just murdered in the crematorium?

4. What size was the cell that Filip and the others were brought to at the end of their eventful day in Chapter 2?

5. What was Filip ordered to do to the dead bodies in the cremation room?

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