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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. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?
(a) Back to Germany.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) England.
(d) Poland.

2. As Filip waited for the return of Vacek and the others, what did he most fear might happen to him?
(a) Being struck on his bare buttocks.
(b) Sport in the yard.
(c) Being starved.
(d) Being castrated.

3. What were Filip and the others ordered to do with the clothing left behind by those just murdered in the crematorium?
(a) Give them to the next crowd coming out.
(b) Sort them into separate piles.
(c) Burn them.
(d) Place them on the dead bodies.

4. What worried Filip so much about a cut on his pinkie finger?
(a) Stark seeing his wound.
(b) Bleeding to death.
(c) Tetanus.
(d) Ptomaine poisoning.

5. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?
(a) None.
(b) One blanket was shared by two prisoners.
(c) One blanket.
(d) One and an extra if it was very cold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Fischl get so upset with the other prisoners while he recited the Kaddish?

2. How did the SS treat the members of the Family Camp as they were entering the crematorium yard?

3. Who was Fischl?

4. Why was Roehrig, a block senior, transferred to a penal company?

5. Who was Vacek's second victim to be pulled out of the ranks?

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