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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 disbelief.
(b) With resignation.
(c) WIth prayers to God.
(d) WIth panic and alarm.

2. What did Maurice and Filip do with the crowbars and hammers Stark gave them?
(a) Damage the fire-brick lining.
(b) LIft the corpses.
(c) Open the gates of the oven.
(d) Attack Stark.

3. 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) Resist.
(b) Pray.
(c) Scream.
(d) Run.

4. Why was Roehrig, a block senior, transferred to a penal company?
(a) He tried to help some Family Camp members escape.
(b) He stole a gold chain.
(c) He would not have his head shaved.
(d) He refused to use a truncheon on prisoners.

5. Why did the Sonderkommandos have their own hospital?
(a) To show the men some kindness.
(b) They were the elite prisoners.
(c) They tended to get sicker than the rest.
(d) To treat the men in isolation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the prisoners of the Sonderkommando at first kept away from the last group of prisoners to be killed in Chapter 3?

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

3. What were Schwarzhuber and Dr. Mangele doing when Filip saw them through the open door of the gas chamber?

4. What did the word "organize" mean in the camp's slang?

5. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?

(see the answer key)

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