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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. When one of the Sonderkommandos told a woman he recognized that she was about to be gassed to death, what did she do?
(a) Disfigured herself with her nails and foamed at the mouth.
(b) Calmly agreed to spread the word.
(c) Committed suicide.
(d) Cried silently.

2. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?
(a) England.
(b) Poland.
(c) Back to Germany.
(d) Switzerland.

3. What was the view for the prisoners when they were moved from the dungeon to Cell 13?
(a) The area where executions took place.
(b) The entrace to the women's camp.
(c) A field of grass.
(d) The guard towers.

4. How long did it take a prisoner's body to burn in the oven?
(a) One day.
(b) Five minutes.
(c) Four hours.
(d) Twenty minutes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who was Schlage?

4. Who decided, with a plan to help, that the Family Camp must be warned at once about their impending doom?

5. When half of the crowd at the end of Chapter 3 were behind the door of the crematorium, what was the other half, still dressed, doing?

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