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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 do to quench his thirst on Sunday afternoon?
(a) Drink the extra bowl of soup he managed to get.
(b) Drink from puddles on the ground.
(c) Sneak outside with his bunkmate.
(d) Steal another prisoner's water.

2. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?
(a) Spoke to Obersturmfuhrer Weber.
(b) Smuggled him in.
(c) Pleaded with Mietek.
(d) Bribed the Kapo.

3. What did almost every prisoner in the Sonderkommando spend a great deal of time doing?
(a) Beating others.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Eating.
(d) Organizing.

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

5. 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) Threw their clothing at the German soldiers.
(b) They began to dress again.
(c) Cried and prayed silently.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the prisoners of the Sonderkommando at first kept away from the last group of prisoners to be killed in Chapter 3?

2. Who caught Muller at the cauldron of tea?

3. Before the SS men poured the deadly gas crystals into the gas chamber, what did they do?

4. Who did Filip notice in the front rank of the Sonderkommando group he was in at Birkenau?

5. Why was Roehrig, a block senior, transferred to a penal company?

(see the answer key)

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