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

2. While Filip waited in the gas chamber, who did he learn had committed suicide?
(a) Daniel Ostbaum.
(b) Fredi Hirsch.
(c) Langer.
(d) Maurice.

3. How was the crowd treated by the "representative of the Foreign Ministry"?
(a) As though they were Aryan citizens of the Reich.
(b) Very politely.
(c) With roughness and sarcasm.
(d) Brutally.

4. Why were the prisoners who were forced to participate in the preparations for the exterminations separated into two groups at first?
(a) In case some of them died.
(b) To separate men from women.
(c) To give them intimate knowledge of the methods being used.
(d) To prevent detailed knowledge of the methods being used.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did almost every prisoner in the Sonderkommando spend a great deal of time doing?

2. Where did the SS leader, Schwarzhuber, tell the Family Camp they would be going a few days before they were led to the crematorium?

3. What was a Kapo?

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

5. Who pretended to be a representative of the Foreign Ministry to a crowd of people about to be gassed to death?

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