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

2. 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?
(a) Germans living in this country.
(b) Volunteer SS in Slovakia.
(c) Racist Slovakians who hated everyone.
(d) Hlinka guardsmen.

3. What happened to the gold teeth pulled from the mouths of those gassed?
(a) Most of them were organized by the Sonderkommando.
(b) They were hoarded by the SS.
(c) They were sent to the Nazi front ranks.
(d) They were melted and formed into bars.

4. What did the people who were machine-gunned and gassed in Chapter 3 pay a lot of money to the Gestapo for?
(a) Immigration to Paraguay.
(b) An escape to Switzerland.
(c) Imprisonment instead of death.
(d) A comfortable train ride to Auschwitz.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Schwarzhuber and Dr. Mangele doing when Filip saw them through the open door of the gas chamber?

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

3. When the Nazis invaded Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, where were the Jews first removed from?

4. What did some of the Family Camp prisoners shout as they awaited death in the crematorium?

5. What happened to the Sonderkommando who told a woman in the crowd they were all to be exterminated?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. A few radicals in the camp, wanting to strike off on their on in an escape plan, renewed their violent criticism towards the leaders of the Resistance. Why?

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

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

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

6. What was "extermination through labor"?

7. Filip considered Dr. Pach to have exemplary qualities of humanity. Why?

8. 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?

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

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

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