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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 Filip and the others throw on top of the mountain of bodies in the pit?
(a) Blankets.
(b) The clothes of the dead.
(c) Dirty snow.
(d) Chlorinated lime.

2. What did the SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?
(a) A treasured cookie.
(b) Bread rations.
(c) Orders to be still.
(d) Lashing with a whip.

3. What were Schwarzhuber and Dr. Mangele doing when Filip saw them through the open door of the gas chamber?
(a) Looking sadly at the people.
(b) Aiming their guns at people.
(c) Looking curiously inside.
(d) Cursing at the prisoners.

4. What is the name of the town that Filip Muller is from?
(a) Sered.
(b) Trnava.
(c) Presburg.
(d) Trencin.

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?
(a) Bribe an officer.
(b) Escape.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Organize some gold.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the only Polish word that Aumeier learned in order to make himself understood by his victims?

3. What was a Volksdeutscher?

4. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?

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

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