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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Tragedy of the Family Camp.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?
(a) Inform the next Polish transport of their imminent death.
(b) Bribe every SS man that they knew would help them out.
(c) Escape in the middle of the night.
(d) Build an underground tunnel.

2. What did some of the Family Camp prisoners shout as they awaited death in the crematorium?
(a) "End the war!"
(b) "You lied to us!"
(c) "We want to live!"
(d) "What is happening?"

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

4. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?
(a) To help with the burning of corpses.
(b) To move up in the ranks of his job.
(c) To join the Sonderkommando there.
(d) To bring chlorinated lime for the corpses.

5. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?
(a) Spoke to Obersturmfuhrer Weber.
(b) Pleaded with Mietek.
(c) Bribed the Kapo.
(d) Smuggled him in.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did one of Filip's team find a hand grenade?

2. What did the girls in the gas chamber do to Filip?

3. How did patients who were brought to Birkenau from mental hospitals react to being told to undress before their execution?

4. What did the girl, Yana, tell Filip to give to her boyfriend after she was dead?

5. How long did it take a prisoner's body to burn in the oven?

(see the answer key)

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