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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What worried Filip so much about a cut on his pinkie finger?
(a) Stark seeing his wound.
(b) Tetanus.
(c) Bleeding to death.
(d) Ptomaine poisoning.

3. What was a Kapo?
(a) A prisoner in charge of a working party.
(b) The officer in command.
(c) A German citizen.
(d) The German officer who kept the peace among prisoners.

4. What was the only Polish word that Aumeier learned in order to make himself understood by his victims?
(a) Kota (cat).
(b) Psa (dog).
(c) Ide (go).
(d) Szybko (faster).

5. What was the ultimate fate of the prisoners that Vacek pulled out of the ranks?
(a) They were beaten to death with truncheons.
(b) They were shot on the spot.
(c) They were fed to increase their strength.
(d) They were sent to the gas chamber.

6. What did the SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?
(a) A treasured cookie.
(b) Bread rations.
(c) Orders to be still.
(d) Lashing with a whip.

7. What was the midday meal for prisoners?
(a) Sausage.
(b) A thin soup.
(c) Bread and water.
(d) Boiled potatoes.

8. What size was the cell that Filip and the others were brought to at the end of their eventful day in Chapter 2?
(a) As large as the crematorium.
(b) There was no way to tell.
(c) Three paces long by three paces wide.
(d) Eight feet by ten feet.

9. Before the SS men poured the deadly gas crystals into the gas chamber, what did they do?
(a) Told the people inside to lie down.
(b) Put on gas masks.
(c) Turned on the truck engines.
(d) Turned the hot water on for the showers.

10. What was the quarrel between Mietek and Fischl over?
(a) Whether prayers could be said.
(b) Who should be Kapo.
(c) Who worked the hardest.
(d) The food rations.

11. What did Filip imagine might be done to him if they tied his hands behind his back?
(a) He would have to perform his work like that.
(b) He would be left in a hole to die.
(c) He would then be suspended by his fastened hands.
(d) They would then cut his hands off.

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

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

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

15. Why were the prisoners so concerned about lice?
(a) One infected louse could cause typhus and death.
(b) The itching was unbearable.
(c) Prisoners would be made to eat the lice.
(d) A prisoner with lice would be put in boiling hot water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?

2. What was the job of the block clerk?

3. What was one of Vacek's commands to the lined-up prisoners in the yard of Block 11?

4. What was the inscription on the camp gate?

5. What did a Block Senior receive as a reward for making prisoners keep the block clean?

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