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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was a Kapo?
(a) The German officer who kept the peace among prisoners.
(b) A prisoner in charge of a working party.
(c) The officer in command.
(d) A German citizen.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the emblem on the side of the truck that took the men back and forth to the mass grave?

2. What was the only Polish word that Aumeier learned in order to make himself understood by his victims?

3. Why were the prisoners who were forced to participate in the preparations for the exterminations separated into two groups at first?

4. What did Vacek do to the prisoner who was mumbling next to Muller?

5. What did Filip and the others throw on top of the mountain of bodies in the pit?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were the newly arrived prisoners standing outside the crematorium told by the SS men in order to get them to undress calmly?

3. Describe the midday lunch the men were given in Chapter 1.

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

5. When Filip became a crematorium worker, what did he realize was his only chance of staying alive?

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

7. What were the Kapo's incentives to victimize some of the men at the morning exercise?

8. What did the lawyer in Chapter 1 do that cost him his life?

9. 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?

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

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