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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 rank was Hauptsternfuhrer Hans Aumeier?
(a) General.
(b) Corporal.
(c) Sergeant.
(d) Captain.

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

3. How long did the process of incineration in the pit take?
(a) Five to six hours.
(b) Twelve hours.
(c) Days.
(d) A week.

4. What did a Block Senior receive as a reward for making prisoners keep the block clean?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) A reprieve from death.
(c) An extra portion of soup.
(d) No beatings.

5. While Filip was in the gas chamber, who did he look up to find surrounding him?
(a) His fellow Sonderkommandos.
(b) A group of people from the Family Camp.
(c) Some SS men.
(d) Vicious dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the contents of the note that Voss received in Chapter 4 tell him to do?

2. What was Sonderbehandlung?

3. What did Filip encounter when he went to Crematorium 3 for the first time?

4. What did Vacek order to be done with the tea that the prisoners were to drink?

5. What did the SS men do as the prisoners from the Family Camp began to sing as they were pushed towards the gas chambers?

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