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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Inferno.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did many of the children from the Gypsy camp die from?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Noma.
(c) Beatings.
(d) Anemia.

2. What was the name of Filip's bunk mate in Chapter 1?
(a) Morris.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Manny.
(d) Michael.

3. What did the SS men do as the prisoners from the Family Camp began to sing as they were pushed towards the gas chambers?
(a) Began to sing with them.
(b) Machine-gunned the last few to enter.
(c) Continued to beat the prisoners.
(d) Taped their mouths shut.

4. How long did Filip live in Block 11 in Auschwitz before being sent to Birkenau?
(a) Three years.
(b) A year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Fourteen months.

5. Why was Roehrig, a block senior, transferred to a penal company?
(a) He refused to use a truncheon on prisoners.
(b) He tried to help some Family Camp members escape.
(c) He would not have his head shaved.
(d) He stole a gold chain.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Sonderkommando members asked the Resistance in the camp to plan a mass escape, what were they told?

2. What happened to Filip and the others as they were driven past the town of Auschwitz with the corpses?

3. What happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?

4. What was a bum-boy?

5. Who was SS-Untersturmfuhrer Max Grabner?

(see the answer key)

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