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

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

3. Why did Filip assume that a car with its headlamps on was driving behind the truck with the prisoners and the corpses?
(a) To help light the way for the truck.
(b) To make sure the weary prisoners did not escape in the night.
(c) To help them at their destination.
(d) To be assured that no corpses fell out of the truck.

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

5. Where did one of Filip's team find a hand grenade?
(a) In the pocket of a dead Ukranian SS man.
(b) In Bunker 1.
(c) In the new Birkenau crematoria.
(d) In an urn at Auschwitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. When one of the Sonderkommandos told a woman he recognized that she was about to be gassed to death, what did she do?

2. What was a "mussulman"?

3. Who did the inmates of Birkenau think the Family Camp was under the protection of?

4. What happened to Filip and the others as they were driven past the town of Auschwitz with the corpses?

5. What were the people in the crematorium killed with?

(see the answer key)

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