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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 did the Family Camp react to the news that they would be gassed?
(a) With resignation.
(b) WIth panic and alarm.
(c) WIth prayers to God.
(d) With disbelief.

2. Who did the inmates of Birkenau think the Family Camp was under the protection of?
(a) The Polish government.
(b) The League of Nations.
(c) The media.
(d) The International Red Cross.

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

4. What did the statement, "he has gone to the wire" refer to?
(a) The birds sitting on the wire fences.
(b) Someone who dared to climb the barbed-wire fence and fell.
(c) A prisoner who was killed by running into the electrified fence.
(d) A prisoner who escapes past the wired fence.

5. What did the SS threaten the prisoners of the Family Camp with after a few of them rushed toward the doors and were killed?
(a) Machine guns.
(b) Electrocution.
(c) Small-bore rifles.
(d) Torture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title given to Filip's working party by Stark?

2. In Chapter 3, when a crowd of 1,000 people undressed, what did they begin to do when they realized they would be killed?

3. What did the SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?

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

5. What was an SS-Oberaufseherin?

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