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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 blockfuhrer?
(a) An executioner in the gas chambers.
(b) The lead prisoner in each block.
(c) An SS man who supervised work in some blocks.
(d) The SS man in charge of all the blocks in the camp.

2. Who was Schlage?
(a) A prisoner who escaped.
(b) A Nazi General about to arrive.
(c) An SS officer watching Vacek.
(d) A relative of Vacek's.

3. Before the SS men poured the deadly gas crystals into the gas chamber, what did they do?
(a) Told the people inside to lie down.
(b) Put on gas masks.
(c) Turned the hot water on for the showers.
(d) Turned on the truck engines.

4. Who was the man muttering to himself in the ranks next to Muller?
(a) A Rabbi that Muller once knew.
(b) Muller's father.
(c) A lawyer from Muller's hometown.
(d) An old school chum of Muller's.

5. After the SS men, Aumeier and Grabner, convened as to the viability of the pit they had driven to, what were the prisoners ordered to do?
(a) Throw the corpses into the pit.
(b) Go back to the camp.
(c) Take a short nap.
(d) Dig a bigger pit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre does the story fall into?

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

3. Where did Stark bring Maurice and Filip after they were caught stealing tea?

4. What did the green triangle on the uniform of the block clerk, Vacek, signify?

5. What is the Polish name for the town the Germans called Auschwitz?

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