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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 Sonderbehandlung?
(a) Selection for extermination.
(b) Secret code word for murdering.
(c) Lance sergeant.
(d) Penal company.

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

3. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?
(a) Pleaded with Mietek.
(b) Spoke to Obersturmfuhrer Weber.
(c) Smuggled him in.
(d) Bribed the Kapo.

4. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?
(a) One blanket.
(b) None.
(c) One blanket was shared by two prisoners.
(d) One and an extra if it was very cold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?

2. Where did the SS leader, Schwarzhuber, tell the Family Camp they would be going a few days before they were led to the crematorium?

3. What were Filip and the others ordered to do with the clothing left behind by those just murdered in the crematorium?

4. From what point of view is the story told?

5. What was one of Vacek's commands to the lined-up prisoners in the yard of Block 11?

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