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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. In Chapter 3, when a crowd of 1,000 people undressed, what did they begin to do when they realized they would be killed?
(a) Cried and prayed silently.
(b) They began to dress again.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Threw their clothing at the German soldiers.

2. What were SS men most likely to be bribed with?
(a) Gold, diamonds and deutsche marks.
(b) Drugs, diamonds and dollars.
(c) Gold, dollars and diamonds.
(d) Sex, gold and dollars.

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

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

5. How many Red Army prisoners of war were left alive by January, 1945, out of the 13,000 taken?
(a) 100.
(b) 1,300.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 12,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Filip encounter when he went to Crematorium 3 for the first time?

2. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?

3. What piece of evidence concerning the death camp did Filip obtain for the Resistance?

4. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?

5. Why were Filip and others made to stand among the crowd in Chapter 3 holding up letters of the alphabet?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways did the prisoners of the Family Camp change their emotional state once inside the changing room?

2. Why were the prisoners of the Family Camp so confused as they stood in the crematorium facing certain death?

3. What is ironic and sad about the scene during which there was a party for Gorges in the crematorium?

4. Why did the members of the Sonderkommando feel the time had come to convince the other prisoners in the camp to attempt a mass escape in February, 1944?

5. What problems did the SS men who accepted bribes organized by prisoners have?

6. How did Voss decide to deal with the need to have the crematorium ready by 8 am the following morning for the Family Camp?

7. When Filip was sent to Birkenau to deliver chlorinated lime, he spoke with two grammar school friends who were burning decomposing corpses. Why did the SS men come and separate them?

8. Compare Filip's feelings during his work in the crematorium with his return to the prison camp.

9. What put Filip's mind to rest concerning Mietek being a Kapo at Birkenau?

10. How is it that Quackernack came to be attacked by the woman with her high heel?

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