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

2. What did Vacek do to the prisoner who was mumbling next to Muller?
(a) Beat him to death.
(b) Shot him at point blank range.
(c) Reported him to Schlage.
(d) Ordered him to the gas chamber.

3. What was the job of the block clerk?
(a) To count all of the gold teeth coming into the camp.
(b) To block prisoner's movements around the camp.
(c) To keep track of the spending of money.
(d) To record data and movements of prisoners.

4. What was eventually done with the two groups witnessing and helping with the gassing of prisoners in Chapter 2?
(a) They were caught joking about the process.
(b) They were put together as a crematorium working party.
(c) They were killed and replaced.
(d) They were further separated into three groups.

5. As Filip considered what his life would be like if he survived the war, he thought of running into the FS men. Who were they?
(a) Hlinka guardsmen.
(b) Germans living in this country.
(c) Racist Slovakians who hated everyone.
(d) Volunteer SS in Slovakia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prisoner, experienced in organizing conspiracies, was transferred back to Auschwitz?

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

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

4. What were Filip and the others ordered to do with the clothing left behind by those just murdered in the crematorium?

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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