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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. Filip had one regret as he stood in the gas chamber, ready to die. What was it?
(a) He did not have the hand grenades.
(b) He did not help one person to get out alive.
(c) He forgot to say goodbye to the others.
(d) He did not write a will.

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

3. What was an SS-Oberaufseherin?
(a) Working team.
(b) Head wardress.
(c) First lieutenant.
(d) Platoon sergeant.

4. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?
(a) Poland.
(b) Back to Germany.
(c) England.
(d) Switzerland.

5. When one of the Sonderkommandos told a woman he recognized that she was about to be gassed to death, what did she do?
(a) Cried silently.
(b) Calmly agreed to spread the word.
(c) Disfigured herself with her nails and foamed at the mouth.
(d) Committed suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Fischl get so upset with the other prisoners while he recited the Kaddish?

2. Who told Filip "..it is vital that you should see everything, experience everything, go through everything and consciously record everything in your mind"?

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

4. What was Filip ordered to do to the dead bodies in the cremation room?

5. Why was Roehrig, a block senior, transferred to a penal company?

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