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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 did almost every prisoner in the Sonderkommando spend a great deal of time doing?
(a) Eating.
(b) Beating others.
(c) Organizing.
(d) Sleeping.

2. When the Nazis invaded Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, where were the Jews first removed from?
(a) Their homes.
(b) The Civil Service.
(c) Shops.
(d) Swimming baths.

3. How many times had the prisoners already repeated Vacek's same command at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Twice.
(b) 120 times.
(c) 100 times.
(d) 30 times.

4. What did Johann Gorges' nickname, Moische Borak, mean?
(a) Evil one.
(b) Stonewall faced.
(c) Beetroot face.
(d) Ugly man.

5. Who was Schlage?
(a) A relative of Vacek's.
(b) A prisoner who escaped.
(c) An SS officer watching Vacek.
(d) A Nazi General about to arrive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the SS threaten the prisoners of the Family Camp with after a few of them rushed toward the doors and were killed?

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. Why was Roehrig, a block senior, transferred to a penal company?

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

5. What gave Filip some solace as his father's remains were burned in the crematorium?

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