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

2. After a while, how did Filip and other Sonderkommandos regard anybody arriving at the crematorium?
(a) As a victim of their own doing.
(b) As doomed to die.
(c) As though they were family.
(d) With a glimmer of hope that someone would make it out alive.

3. Who pretended to be a representative of the Foreign Ministry to a crowd of people about to be gassed to death?
(a) Voss.
(b) Hossler.
(c) Kaminski.
(d) Schwarzhuber.

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

5. Where did the SS leader, Schwarzhuber, tell the Family Camp they would be going a few days before they were led to the crematorium?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Heydebreck.
(c) Theresienstadt.
(d) Sered.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the doctor in charge of the Sonderkommando hospital in Birkenau?

3. What did the SS men do as the prisoners from the Family Camp began to sing as they were pushed towards the gas chambers?

4. What did the so-called representative of the Foreign Ministry tell the crowd they could not leave without?

5. What did the term "selection" mean at Birkenau and other camps?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Filip feel his life had changed for the better when he was moved to Birkenau?

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

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

5. What was "extermination through labor"?

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

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

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

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

10. Why did the SS decide not to shoot the first load of people from the Family Camp who were in the changing room?

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