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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 were the people in the crematorium killed with?
(a) Electric shocks.
(b) Machine guns.
(c) Lethal injections.
(d) Poison gas.

2. After a while, how did Filip and other Sonderkommandos regard anybody arriving at the crematorium?
(a) With a glimmer of hope that someone would make it out alive.
(b) As doomed to die.
(c) As though they were family.
(d) As a victim of their own doing.

3. What rank was Hauptsternfuhrer Hans Aumeier?
(a) General.
(b) Captain.
(c) Sergeant.
(d) Corporal.

4. 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) Volunteer SS in Slovakia.
(b) Racist Slovakians who hated everyone.
(c) Germans living in this country.
(d) Hlinka guardsmen.

5. What did Johann Gorges' nickname, Moische Borak, mean?
(a) Evil one.
(b) Stonewall faced.
(c) Ugly man.
(d) Beetroot face.

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre does the story fall into?

2. Why were the SS men so concerned when they saw the bodies in the pit in the daylight?

3. How long did it take a prisoner's body to burn in the oven?

4. What did the SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?

5. What were Schwarzhuber and Dr. Mangele doing when Filip saw them through the open door of the gas chamber?

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