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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 happened to Daniel Obstbaum?
(a) He bribed Dobrowolny, an old schoolmate.
(b) He escaped with Fero Langer.
(c) He was shot trying to escape.
(d) He was given a week's special leave.

2. Why did the Sonderkommandos have their own hospital?
(a) They were the elite prisoners.
(b) To show the men some kindness.
(c) To treat the men in isolation.
(d) They tended to get sicker than the rest.

3. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?
(a) To help with the burning of corpses.
(b) To bring chlorinated lime for the corpses.
(c) To move up in the ranks of his job.
(d) To join the Sonderkommando there.

4. Why were the people in the Family Camp asked to write letters to family and friends days before their extermination?
(a) So handwriting could be examined.
(b) To make it seem as though all was fine.
(c) To keep the prisoners busy.
(d) So officials could read them all first.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the contents of the note that Voss received in Chapter 4 tell him to do?

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

3. How did Filip know Alfred Wetzler?

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

5. What was a Volksdeutscher?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Filip manage to speak to prisoners awaiting execution?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

6. What was "extermination through labor"?

7. How was the rumor that the Family Camp stood under the protection of the International Red Cross dispelled?

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

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

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

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