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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. How long did it take a prisoner's body to burn in the oven?
(a) Four hours.
(b) One day.
(c) Twenty minutes.
(d) Five minutes.

2. What was the inscription on the camp gate?
(a) "Work Is Good For the Soul."
(b) "Heil Hitler."
(c) "Camp Auschwitz."
(d) "Work liberates."

3. After the SS men, Aumeier and Grabner, convened as to the viability of the pit they had driven to, what were the prisoners ordered to do?
(a) Go back to the camp.
(b) Dig a bigger pit.
(c) Take a short nap.
(d) Throw the corpses into the pit.

4. What was eventually done with the two groups witnessing and helping with the gassing of prisoners in Chapter 2?
(a) They were further separated into three groups.
(b) They were killed and replaced.
(c) They were put together as a crematorium working party.
(d) They were caught joking about the process.

5. What did the word "organize" mean in the camp's slang?
(a) To give orders to prisoners.
(b) To order goods.
(c) To steal.
(d) To clean.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What were SS men most likely to be bribed with?

4. Where did the SS leader, Schwarzhuber, tell the Family Camp they would be going a few days before they were led to the crematorium?

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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