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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. Who pretended to be a representative of the Foreign Ministry to a crowd of people about to be gassed to death?
(a) Schwarzhuber.
(b) Hossler.
(c) Kaminski.
(d) Voss.

2. What was the only Polish word that Aumeier learned in order to make himself understood by his victims?
(a) Kota (cat).
(b) Szybko (faster).
(c) Psa (dog).
(d) Ide (go).

3. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?
(a) To help with the burning of corpses.
(b) To bring chlorinated lime for the corpses.
(c) To join the Sonderkommando there.
(d) To move up in the ranks of his job.

4. 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) Protesting to the SS.
(b) Praying aloud the same prayers.
(c) Whispering to each other about an escape plan.
(d) Nothing.

5. What happened to the gold teeth pulled from the mouths of those gassed?
(a) They were hoarded by the SS.
(b) Most of them were organized by the Sonderkommando.
(c) They were sent to the Nazi front ranks.
(d) They were melted and formed into bars.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What size was the cell that Filip and the others were brought to at the end of their eventful day in Chapter 2?

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

4. Who did Filip notice in the front rank of the Sonderkommando group he was in at Birkenau?

5. What did the girls in the gas chamber do to Filip?

(see the answer key)

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