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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. What was a bum-boy?
(a) A Polish prisoner.
(b) Someone who served Kapos and block seniors.
(c) A bookkeeper.
(d) A prisoner who lost the will to live.

2. What happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?
(a) Many of them made it to freedom.
(b) They were caught by police dogs and executed.
(c) They were often forgetten and starved to death.
(d) They were murdered in their hiding places.

3. How did patients who were brought to Birkenau from mental hospitals react to being told to undress before their execution?
(a) In different ways.
(b) With screams.
(c) They resisted fiercely.
(d) With laughter.

4. Who did the inmates of Birkenau think the Family Camp was under the protection of?
(a) The International Red Cross.
(b) The media.
(c) The Polish government.
(d) The League of Nations.

5. How did Filip know Alfred Wetzler?
(a) From school.
(b) From the crematorium.
(c) From Auschwitz.
(d) From the Jewish ghetto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the so-called representative of the Foreign Ministry tell the crowd they could not leave without?

2. Why did the Sonderkommandos have their own hospital?

3. What happened to the gold teeth pulled from the mouths of those gassed?

4. When the Sonderkommando members asked the Resistance in the camp to plan a mass escape, what were they told?

5. What did the SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?

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