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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the technique thought up by the Kommandofuhrers and known as "express work" originally used?
(a) To save coke.
(b) To cut down on the men needed for the work.
(c) It was done on the fastest train running.
(d) To burn bodies more quickly.

2. How did the SS treat the members of the Family Camp as they were entering the crematorium yard?
(a) Fairly.
(b) With undisguised cruelty.
(c) As though they were in no danger.
(d) WIth dignity.

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

4. Who decided, with a plan to help, that the Family Camp must be warned at once about their impending doom?
(a) Wetzler.
(b) Schoen.
(c) Muller.
(d) Kaminski.

5. Filip had one regret as he stood in the gas chamber, ready to die. What was it?
(a) He did not help one person to get out alive.
(b) He forgot to say goodbye to the others.
(c) He did not write a will.
(d) He did not have the hand grenades.

6. 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?
(a) Pray.
(b) Resist.
(c) Run.
(d) Scream.

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

8. What did the so-called representative of the Foreign Ministry tell the crowd they could not leave without?
(a) Their clean clothing.
(b) A certificate of disinfection.
(c) A letter of introduction.
(d) A haircut.

9. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?
(a) Dajan.
(b) Mietek.
(c) Kurschuss.
(d) Gorges.

10. What was a Volksdeutscher?
(a) A follower of Hitler.
(b) An ethnic German.
(c) A person born and bred in Germany.
(d) A believer in the German tradition.

11. What did almost every prisoner in the Sonderkommando spend a great deal of time doing?
(a) Eating.
(b) Beating others.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Organizing.

12. What plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?
(a) Escape in the middle of the night.
(b) Inform the next Polish transport of their imminent death.
(c) Build an underground tunnel.
(d) Bribe every SS man that they knew would help them out.

13. How did the Sonderkommando's doctor's wife try to follow him as he was being deported?
(a) She bribed an SS man.
(b) She joined a crowd marked with the Star of David.
(c) She clung to his legs and was dragged along.
(d) She sewed a Star of David onto her coat.

14. What was Filip's friend, the last of seven from his hometown of Sered, planning to do at the time he learned of the plan to inform the Family Camp of their impending death?
(a) Commit suicide.
(b) Organize some gold.
(c) Bribe an officer.
(d) Escape.

15. Where did the SS leader, Schwarzhuber, tell the Family Camp they would be going a few days before they were led to the crematorium?
(a) Heydebreck.
(b) Theresienstadt.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Sered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did members of the Family Camp think was happening when, after being warned, there was no violence towards them after a few days?

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

3. What did Johann Gorges' nickname, Moische Borak, mean?

4. While Filip waited in the gas chamber, who did he learn had committed suicide?

5. What did the girls in the gas chamber do to Filip?

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