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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 Filip and others made to stand among the crowd in Chapter 3 holding up letters of the alphabet?
(a) To call each group of prisoners into the crematorium by last name.
(b) To identify the bodies after the gassing.
(c) To make them believe they would be waiting for the train according to their name.
(d) So the SS would know who each person was according to their name.

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

3. Why were the SS men so concerned when they saw the bodies in the pit in the daylight?
(a) The bodies were swollen and hard to look at.
(b) They didn't think Filip and the others were stong enough to bury the dead.
(c) The water in the pit was rising and the bodies were not buried.
(d) The bodies were extremely slippery.

4. Where did the majority of the people in the Family Camp come from?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Theresienstadt.

5. 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?
(a) Volunteer SS in Slovakia.
(b) Racist Slovakians who hated everyone.
(c) Hlinka guardsmen.
(d) Germans living in this country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was "Canada" in the camp?

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

3. What piece of evidence concerning the death camp did Filip obtain for the Resistance?

4. What did the statement, "he has gone to the wire" refer to?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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