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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 plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?
(a) Bribe every SS man that they knew would help them out.
(b) Inform the next Polish transport of their imminent death.
(c) Build an underground tunnel.
(d) Escape in the middle of the night.

2. What was the job of a block orderly?
(a) Relaying news to prisoners.
(b) Keeping prisoners from fighting.
(c) Running messages back and forth.
(d) Keeping the block clean and tidy.

3. What was a Volksdeutscher?
(a) A person born and bred in Germany.
(b) An ethnic German.
(c) A follower of Hitler.
(d) A believer in the German tradition.

4. Who pretended to be a representative of the Foreign Ministry to a crowd of people about to be gassed to death?
(a) Kaminski.
(b) Hossler.
(c) Schwarzhuber.
(d) Voss.

5. What is the Polish name for the town the Germans called Auschwitz?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Krakow.
(c) Oswieczim.
(d) Augustow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the job of the block clerk?

2. What were the people in the crematorium killed with?

3. What did the term "selection" mean at Birkenau and other camps?

4. What was a "mussulman"?

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

(see the answer key)

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