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

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

3. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?
(a) None.
(b) One blanket.
(c) One and an extra if it was very cold.
(d) One blanket was shared by two prisoners.

4. Why were the prisoners so concerned about lice?
(a) A prisoner with lice would be put in boiling hot water.
(b) One infected louse could cause typhus and death.
(c) Prisoners would be made to eat the lice.
(d) The itching was unbearable.

5. What did the word "organize" mean in the camp's slang?
(a) To clean.
(b) To order goods.
(c) To steal.
(d) To give orders to prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Filip had one regret as he stood in the gas chamber, ready to die. What was it?

3. How many times had the prisoners already repeated Vacek's same command at the beginning of Chapter 1?

4. Why were the SS men so concerned when they saw the bodies in the pit in the daylight?

5. When the SS men assembled about 2,000 people to the crematorium yard in Chapter 3, what did one man lead the people to do?

(see the answer key)

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