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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 the job of a block orderly?
(a) Keeping the block clean and tidy.
(b) Keeping prisoners from fighting.
(c) Running messages back and forth.
(d) Relaying news to prisoners.

2. What did the statement, "he has gone to the wire" refer to?
(a) A prisoner who was killed by running into the electrified fence.
(b) A prisoner who escapes past the wired fence.
(c) The birds sitting on the wire fences.
(d) Someone who dared to climb the barbed-wire fence and fell.

3. What did the term "selection" mean at Birkenau and other camps?
(a) Chosen for a special job.
(b) Extermination.
(c) Being sent to an isolation cell.
(d) Advance in rank.

4. What was the quarrel between Mietek and Fischl over?
(a) Who worked the hardest.
(b) Whether prayers could be said.
(c) Who should be Kapo.
(d) The food rations.

5. What was Auschwitz fashion?
(a) A coat with pockets for "organizing".
(b) Having a shaved head to avoid lice.
(c) Wearing striped suits.
(d) Imitating the SS through dress.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who pretended to be a representative of the Foreign Ministry to a crowd of people about to be gassed to death?

4. Why did Filip assume that a car with its headlamps on was driving behind the truck with the prisoners and the corpses?

5. What was Filip's friend, the last of seven from his hometown of Sered, planning to do at the time he learned of the plan to inform the Family Camp of their impending death?

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