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

2. Who did Filip notice in the front rank of the Sonderkommando group he was in at Birkenau?
(a) Vicek.
(b) Fischl.
(c) Mietek.
(d) Bruck.

3. When the Sonderkommando members asked the Resistance in the camp to plan a mass escape, what were they told?
(a) They would soon be freed by the Russians.
(b) They agreed to it.
(c) There was too much fear.
(d) Wait for warmer weather.

4. How many times had the prisoners already repeated Vacek's same command at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) 120 times.
(b) 30 times.
(c) 100 times.
(d) Twice.

5. What happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?
(a) They were caught by police dogs and executed.
(b) They were murdered in their hiding places.
(c) They were often forgetten and starved to death.
(d) Many of them made it to freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre does the story fall into?

2. What did the so-called representative of the Foreign Ministry tell the crowd they could not leave without?

3. What was the quarrel between Mietek and Fischl over?

4. What drew Filip near the people of the Family Camp as they were in the changing room?

5. What did a female prisoner who was slowly stripping off her clothes do?

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