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

2. What worried Filip so much about a cut on his pinkie finger?
(a) Tetanus.
(b) Bleeding to death.
(c) Stark seeing his wound.
(d) Ptomaine poisoning.

3. What is the name of the town that Filip Muller is from?
(a) Trencin.
(b) Presburg.
(c) Trnava.
(d) Sered.

4. What was the title given to Filip's working party by Stark?
(a) Fischl Team.
(b) Jews.
(c) Auschwitz Army.
(d) Muller People.

5. What was the ultimate fate of the prisoners that Vacek pulled out of the ranks?
(a) They were sent to the gas chamber.
(b) They were shot on the spot.
(c) They were beaten to death with truncheons.
(d) They were fed to increase their strength.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name for a prisoner entrusted with special duties by the SS?

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

3. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?

4. What did Filip imagine might be done to him if they tied his hands behind his back?

5. Why did a prisoner approach Schlage as Schlage looked over the ranks of men?

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