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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 is the Polish name for the town the Germans called Auschwitz?
(a) Oswieczim.
(b) Augustow.
(c) Krakow.
(d) Warsaw.

2. What were the people in the crematorium killed with?
(a) Electric shocks.
(b) Lethal injections.
(c) Poison gas.
(d) Machine guns.

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

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

5. What did the author overhear the prisoner next to him saying in Chapter 1?
(a) Curses at the Germans.
(b) Mumbles of disbelief at the happenings.
(c) Prayers to God to save him.
(d) Nonsensical mumbling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Filip assume that a car with its headlamps on was driving behind the truck with the prisoners and the corpses?

2. Why were the SS men so concerned when they saw the bodies in the pit in the daylight?

3. What was the midday meal for prisoners?

4. What was Sonderbehandlung?

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

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