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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. In Chapter 3, when a crowd of 1,000 people undressed, what did they begin to do when they realized they would be killed?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Cried and prayed silently.
(c) They began to dress again.
(d) Threw their clothing at the German soldiers.

2. Why were Filip and others made to stand among the crowd in Chapter 3 holding up letters of the alphabet?
(a) So the SS would know who each person was according to their name.
(b) To make them believe they would be waiting for the train according to their name.
(c) To call each group of prisoners into the crematorium by last name.
(d) To identify the bodies after the gassing.

3. What did Filip imagine might be done to him if they tied his hands behind his back?
(a) They would then cut his hands off.
(b) He would have to perform his work like that.
(c) He would then be suspended by his fastened hands.
(d) He would be left in a hole to die.

4. Who did Filip notice in the front rank of the Sonderkommando group he was in at Birkenau?
(a) Vicek.
(b) Fischl.
(c) Mietek.
(d) Bruck.

5. What was one of Vacek's commands to the lined-up prisoners in the yard of Block 11?
(a) "Attention!"
(b) "Silence now!"
(c) "Caps off!"
(d) "Forward march!"

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the ultimate fate of the prisoners that Vacek pulled out of the ranks?

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

3. What was the emblem on the side of the truck that took the men back and forth to the mass grave?

4. When the Nazis invaded Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, where were the Jews first removed from?

5. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?

(see the answer key)

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