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

2. Who was called the "Angel of Death" by the men in the Sonderkommando?
(a) Hustek.
(b) Gorges.
(c) Hossler.
(d) Voss.

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

4. When the SS men assembled about 2,000 people to the crematorium yard in Chapter 3, what did one man lead the people to do?
(a) Scream.
(b) Run.
(c) Pray.
(d) Resist.

5. Who told Filip "..it is vital that you should see everything, experience everything, go through everything and consciously record everything in your mind"?
(a) Sasha.
(b) Kaminski.
(c) Yana.
(d) Mengele.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the girl, Yana, tell Filip to give to her boyfriend after she was dead?

2. What was the emblem on the side of the truck that took the men back and forth to the mass grave?

3. As Filip considered what his life would be like if he survived the war, he thought of running into the FS men. Who were they?

4. What was a "mussulman"?

5. What did the contents of the note that Voss received in Chapter 4 tell him to do?

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