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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the SS men believe to be responsible for the fire in the crematorium's chimney?

2. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?

3. What happened to the women in Block 10 at Auschwitz?

4. Why did Filip assume that a car with its headlamps on was driving behind the truck with the prisoners and the corpses?

5. Who was the man muttering to himself in the ranks next to Muller?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Filip's health deteriorate at the time he was given the job of stripping dead bodies of their clothes?

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

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

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

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

6. What dream did Filip have the night he and the others finished the burial of the corpses in the pit?

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

8. What was known as Auschwitz justice as it concerned lice?

9. Explain the orders Vacek gave to the prisoners in the yard of Block 11.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Family Camp prisoners are told more than once that their death is imminent; set for that night.

Part 1 - Why do those inmates end up not believing what they are told?

Part 2 - What methods have the Nazis used in order to gain the trust of the inmates of the Family Camp?

Part 3 - What makes the Nazis betray those inmates in the end?

Essay Topic 2

How do the escape plans of the Resistance in the general camp prison population differ from the plans of the Sonderkommando group? What are the reasons for the two groups having differing opinions as to when they should attempt an escape? Why do they differ?

Essay Topic 3

The SS men have a particular way of ensuring that prisoners set for extermination are not aware of what is about to happen to them.

How do the Germans achieve this ruse?

Why do the prisoners believe them?

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