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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was it most difficult for a prisoner to go?
(a) Ouside.
(b) The women's camp.
(c) The black wall.
(d) The crematorium.

2. What did the girl, Yana, tell Filip to give to her boyfriend after she was dead?
(a) A hug goodbye.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Her gold chain.
(d) A ring.

3. How long did Filip live in Block 11 in Auschwitz before being sent to Birkenau?
(a) Fourteen months.
(b) A year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Three years.

4. Why was Roehrig, a block senior, transferred to a penal company?
(a) He would not have his head shaved.
(b) He stole a gold chain.
(c) He refused to use a truncheon on prisoners.
(d) He tried to help some Family Camp members escape.

5. What did Filip encounter when he went to Crematorium 3 for the first time?
(a) Hair being made into wigs.
(b) Women's hair drying on the brick floor.
(c) Women's hair being shaved off their heads.
(d) Stray hairs blowing in the wind.

6. Why was the technique thought up by the Kommandofuhrers and known as "express work" originally used?
(a) To burn bodies more quickly.
(b) It was done on the fastest train running.
(c) To save coke.
(d) To cut down on the men needed for the work.

7. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?
(a) Poland.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) England.
(d) Back to Germany.

8. 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) Nothing.
(c) They began to dress again.
(d) Threw their clothing at the German soldiers.

9. Who was called the "Angel of Death" by the men in the Sonderkommando?
(a) Hustek.
(b) Gorges.
(c) Hossler.
(d) Voss.

10. What happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?
(a) They were murdered in their hiding places.
(b) They were often forgetten and starved to death.
(c) Many of them made it to freedom.
(d) They were caught by police dogs and executed.

11. What was Filip's friend, the last of seven from his hometown of Sered, planning to do at the time he learned of the plan to inform the Family Camp of their impending death?
(a) Commit suicide.
(b) Escape.
(c) Organize some gold.
(d) Bribe an officer.

12. While Filip was in the gas chamber, who did he look up to find surrounding him?
(a) His fellow Sonderkommandos.
(b) A group of people from the Family Camp.
(c) Vicious dogs.
(d) Some SS men.

13. Why were Filip and others made to stand among the crowd in Chapter 3 holding up letters of the alphabet?
(a) To make them believe they would be waiting for the train according to their name.
(b) To call each group of prisoners into the crematorium by last name.
(c) So the SS would know who each person was according to their name.
(d) To identify the bodies after the gassing.

14. What did the girls in the gas chamber do to Filip?
(a) Asked for his help.
(b) Hugged him tightly.
(c) Pushed him out the door.
(d) Thanked him for being there.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What weaponry had Filip's group acquired as of the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. When the Sonderkommando members asked the Resistance in the camp to plan a mass escape, what were they told?

3. How did Filip know Alfred Wetzler?

4. What drew Filip near the people of the Family Camp as they were in the changing room?

5. As Filip considered what his life would be like if he survived the war, he thought of running into the FS men. Who were they?

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