View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the SS men, Aumeier and Grabner, convened as to the viability of the pit they had driven to, what were the prisoners ordered to do?
(a) Take a short nap.
(b) Throw the corpses into the pit.
(c) Go back to the camp.
(d) Dig a bigger pit.

2. 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) Place them on the dead bodies.
(d) Burn them.

3. What is the Polish name for the town the Germans called Auschwitz?
(a) Augustow.
(b) Oswieczim.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Krakow.

4. What was a blockfuhrer?
(a) An SS man who supervised work in some blocks.
(b) An executioner in the gas chambers.
(c) The SS man in charge of all the blocks in the camp.
(d) The lead prisoner in each block.

5. What was the ultimate fate of the prisoners that Vacek pulled out of the ranks?
(a) They were fed to increase their strength.
(b) They were beaten to death with truncheons.
(c) They were sent to the gas chamber.
(d) They were shot on the spot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Vacek's first victim's handicap?

2. What was the rank of a Rottenfuhrer?

3. When hundred of prisoners were beaten and ordered to undress in the yard, what did Fischl do?

4. What did Filip imagine might be done to him if they tied his hands behind his back?

5. What was the job of the block clerk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Vacek do when the men got in line behind the wooden tea vats?

2. Describe the cell that Filip and the others were taken to after they had put the corpses into the pit.

3. As Filip stood against the wall of the crematorium and contemplated the fate of the hundreds of new prisoners being brought through the gates, what did he ask himself?

4. When Filip and the others were ordered to search and separate the victim's clothing in Chapter 2, how were the items sorted?

5. What new procedure did Filip witness being tried out for the first time in Chapter 2?

6. Whose dead body did Filip realize he was taking cheese and matches from in the crematorium in Chapter 2?

7. Why did the lawyer standing next to Muller begin to complain?

8. What was "sport" at Auschwitz?

9. Besides the gas chamber, what other means of mass murder were used at Auschwitz?

10. Why were Filip and the others terrified as Aumeier and Grabner went from cell to cell in Block 11?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 981 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample