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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. Who was the doctor in charge of the Sonderkommando hospital in Birkenau?
(a) Dr. Jacques Pach.
(b) Dr. Serge.
(c) Dr. Jean Langer.
(d) Dr. Daniel Obstbaum.

2. How was the crowd treated by the "representative of the Foreign Ministry"?
(a) Brutally.
(b) Very politely.
(c) As though they were Aryan citizens of the Reich.
(d) With roughness and sarcasm.

3. What were Schwarzhuber and Dr. Mangele doing when Filip saw them through the open door of the gas chamber?
(a) Looking sadly at the people.
(b) Cursing at the prisoners.
(c) Looking curiously inside.
(d) Aiming their guns at people.

4. What did the SS men do as the prisoners from the Family Camp began to sing as they were pushed towards the gas chambers?
(a) Continued to beat the prisoners.
(b) Machine-gunned the last few to enter.
(c) Began to sing with them.
(d) Taped their mouths shut.

5. What was a bum-boy?
(a) A Polish prisoner.
(b) A prisoner who lost the will to live.
(c) Someone who served Kapos and block seniors.
(d) A bookkeeper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did one of Filip's team find a hand grenade?

2. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?

3. What was an SS-Oberaufseherin?

4. Filip had one regret as he stood in the gas chamber, ready to die. What was it?

5. What happened to the gold teeth pulled from the mouths of those gassed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led the SS to believe that Kapo Kaminski was thoroughly competent to carry out his duties?

2. What did Filip watch a captured young mother with her child do when the SS men ordered them to undress in Chapter 3?

3. How did Filip and others come to realize that members of Birkenau's Sonderkommando who were taken to Lublin had been murdered?

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

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

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

7. What compeled Filip to enter the gas chamber with the others?

8. During the execution of a mother and her child, why did Voss' underling take over for him?

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

10. What were the male prisoners' main motives for wanting to visit the women's camp?

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