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

2. How did patients who were brought to Birkenau from mental hospitals react to being told to undress before their execution?
(a) They resisted fiercely.
(b) In different ways.
(c) With screams.
(d) With laughter.

3. Why were the prisoners who were forced to participate in the preparations for the exterminations separated into two groups at first?
(a) In case some of them died.
(b) To prevent detailed knowledge of the methods being used.
(c) To give them intimate knowledge of the methods being used.
(d) To separate men from women.

4. Who did Filip notice in the front rank of the Sonderkommando group he was in at Birkenau?
(a) Bruck.
(b) Mietek.
(c) Fischl.
(d) Vicek.

5. What was the quarrel between Mietek and Fischl over?
(a) Whether prayers could be said.
(b) The food rations.
(c) Who should be Kapo.
(d) Who worked the hardest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the people in the Family Camp asked to write letters to family and friends days before their extermination?

2. Where was it most difficult for a prisoner to go?

3. How did the Sonderkommando's doctor's wife try to follow him as he was being deported?

4. What did the term "selection" mean at Birkenau and other camps?

5. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?

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