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

2. What was a "mussulman"?
(a) The prisoners who grew muscular from carrying heavy loads.
(b) A prisoner who had lost the will to live.
(c) A rank of officer.
(d) The kind of fish the SS men ate at dinner.

3. Where was it most difficult for a prisoner to go?
(a) Ouside.
(b) The women's camp.
(c) The black wall.
(d) The crematorium.

4. What plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?
(a) Inform the next Polish transport of their imminent death.
(b) Escape in the middle of the night.
(c) Build an underground tunnel.
(d) Bribe every SS man that they knew would help them out.

5. What genre does the story fall into?
(a) Biography.
(b) Mystery.
(c) Memoir.
(d) Novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did patients who were brought to Birkenau from mental hospitals react to being told to undress before their execution?

2. Who did the SS men believe to be responsible for the fire in the crematorium's chimney?

3. After a while, how did Filip and other Sonderkommandos regard anybody arriving at the crematorium?

4. How long did Filip live in Block 11 in Auschwitz before being sent to Birkenau?

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

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