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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the dead girl that Filip had to undress from his hometown?
(a) Yasmin Belath.
(b) Yolana Weis.
(c) Yolanda Weiss.
(d) Vlasta Sered.

2. What was the name for a prisoner entrusted with special duties by the SS?
(a) Oberaufseherin.
(b) Kapo.
(c) Funktionshaftling.
(d) Scharfuhrer.

3. Why were the prisoners who were forced to participate in the preparations for the exterminations separated into two groups at first?
(a) To prevent detailed knowledge of the methods being used.
(b) To separate men from women.
(c) In case some of them died.
(d) To give them intimate knowledge of the methods being used.

4. What is the Polish name for the town the Germans called Auschwitz?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Augustow.
(c) Krakow.
(d) Oswieczim.

5. Where did Stark bring Maurice and Filip after they were caught stealing tea?
(a) The gulley to drink.
(b) The bunks.
(c) The crematorium.
(d) To see Schlage.

6. Where were Filip and Maurice taken after being caught at the tea vats?
(a) To the tower with Schlage.
(b) To Vacek's office.
(c) Opposite the blockfuhrer's room.
(d) Near the gallows area.

7. What was the emblem on the side of the truck that took the men back and forth to the mass grave?
(a) The International Red Cross.
(b) A skull and crossbones.
(c) A dove.
(d) The Nazi Swastika.

8. How did prisoners have to do their weekly shaving?
(a) With tiny scissors.
(b) With cold water, no soap and blunt razors.
(c) With the edges of cutting knives.
(d) WIthout any water.

9. Who was Schlage?
(a) A prisoner who escaped.
(b) A relative of Vacek's.
(c) A Nazi General about to arrive.
(d) An SS officer watching Vacek.

10. What were the people in the crematorium killed with?
(a) Electric shocks.
(b) Poison gas.
(c) Machine guns.
(d) Lethal injections.

11. What was the job of the block clerk?
(a) To record data and movements of prisoners.
(b) To block prisoner's movements around the camp.
(c) To count all of the gold teeth coming into the camp.
(d) To keep track of the spending of money.

12. What was an Unterscharfuhrer?
(a) Corporal.
(b) Sergeant.
(c) General.
(d) Block clerk.

13. How long did it take a prisoner's body to burn in the oven?
(a) Twenty minutes.
(b) Five minutes.
(c) Four hours.
(d) One day.

14. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?
(a) One blanket.
(b) One blanket was shared by two prisoners.
(c) One and an extra if it was very cold.
(d) None.

15. What was the name of Filip's bunk mate in Chapter 1?
(a) Michael.
(b) Manny.
(c) Morris.
(d) Maurice.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what point of view is the story told?

2. Before the SS men poured the deadly gas crystals into the gas chamber, what did they do?

3. What size was the cell that Filip and the others were brought to at the end of their eventful day in Chapter 2?

4. What was the job of a block orderly?

5. What did the statement, "he has gone to the wire" refer to?

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