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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. Where did Stark bring Maurice and Filip after they were caught stealing tea?
(a) The bunks.
(b) To see Schlage.
(c) The gulley to drink.
(d) The crematorium.

2. What was an Unterscharfuhrer?
(a) Block clerk.
(b) Corporal.
(c) General.
(d) Sergeant.

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

4. 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) Taped their mouths shut.
(b) Began to sing with them.
(c) Continued to beat the prisoners.
(d) Machine-gunned the last few to enter.

5. Why were the prisoners so concerned about lice?
(a) One infected louse could cause typhus and death.
(b) A prisoner with lice would be put in boiling hot water.
(c) The itching was unbearable.
(d) Prisoners would be made to eat the lice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did the inmates of Birkenau think the Family Camp was under the protection of?

3. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?

4. What happened to the women in Block 10 at Auschwitz?

5. What plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?

(see the answer key)

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