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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. Why were the SS men so concerned when they saw the bodies in the pit in the daylight?
(a) The water in the pit was rising and the bodies were not buried.
(b) The bodies were swollen and hard to look at.
(c) The bodies were extremely slippery.
(d) They didn't think Filip and the others were stong enough to bury the dead.

2. Filip had one regret as he stood in the gas chamber, ready to die. What was it?
(a) He forgot to say goodbye to the others.
(b) He did not help one person to get out alive.
(c) He did not have the hand grenades.
(d) He did not write a will.

3. When half of the crowd at the end of Chapter 3 were behind the door of the crematorium, what was the other half, still dressed, doing?
(a) Praying aloud the same prayers.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Whispering to each other about an escape plan.
(d) Protesting to the SS.

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

5. What happened to the Sonderkommando who told a woman in the crowd they were all to be exterminated?
(a) He was gassed with the crowd.
(b) He was burned alive in front of the others.
(c) He was shot to death.
(d) He was put into the general population.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the gold teeth pulled from the mouths of those gassed?

2. What did the so-called representative of the Foreign Ministry tell the crowd they could not leave without?

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

4. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?

5. What was "Canada" in the camp?

(see the answer key)

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