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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) There was still danger waiting for them.
(b) The other prisoners just wanted to involve them in a revolt.
(c) The SS had changed their minds.
(d) They were needed to prove the SS were good people.

2. What prisoner, experienced in organizing conspiracies, was transferred back to Auschwitz?
(a) Voss.
(b) Princip.
(c) Gorges.
(d) Vladek.

3. What was an SS-Oberaufseherin?
(a) Working team.
(b) Head wardress.
(c) First lieutenant.
(d) Platoon sergeant.

4. 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) Bribe an officer.
(c) Escape.
(d) Organize some gold.

5. Where did the majority of the people in the Family Camp come from?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Theresienstadt.

6. What did the contents of the note that Voss received in Chapter 4 tell him to do?
(a) Release the inmates of the Family Camp.
(b) Gas the inmates of the Family Camp.
(c) Make room for the arrival of another Family.
(d) Deconstruct the Family Camp the following week.

7. What was a "mussulman"?
(a) A prisoner who had lost the will to live.
(b) The kind of fish the SS men ate at dinner.
(c) A rank of officer.
(d) The prisoners who grew muscular from carrying heavy loads.

8. 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 did not write a will.
(c) He forgot to say goodbye to the others.
(d) He did not have the hand grenades.

9. What was "Canada" in the camp?
(a) An uncompleted camp where prisoners had no clothing.
(b) The coldest section of the camp.
(c) The area where the SS men ate their meals.
(d) Where belongings of Jews were stored.

10. 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.

11. When the Nazis invaded Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, where were the Jews first removed from?
(a) Swimming baths.
(b) The Civil Service.
(c) Shops.
(d) Their homes.

12. When one of the Sonderkommandos told a woman he recognized that she was about to be gassed to death, what did she do?
(a) Committed suicide.
(b) Calmly agreed to spread the word.
(c) Cried silently.
(d) Disfigured herself with her nails and foamed at the mouth.

13. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?
(a) To bring chlorinated lime for the corpses.
(b) To join the Sonderkommando there.
(c) To help with the burning of corpses.
(d) To move up in the ranks of his job.

14. 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 caught by police dogs and executed.
(d) They were murdered in their hiding places.

15. 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) Volunteer SS in Slovakia.
(c) Racist Slovakians who hated everyone.
(d) Germans living in this country.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did some of the Family Camp prisoners shout as they awaited death in the crematorium?

3. Where did the SS leader, Schwarzhuber, tell the Family Camp they would be going a few days before they were led to the crematorium?

4. When half of the crowd at the end of Chapter 3 were behind the door of the crematorium, what was the other half, still dressed, doing?

5. What did the SS threaten the prisoners of the Family Camp with after a few of them rushed toward the doors and were killed?

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