View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Vacek do to the prisoner who was mumbling next to Muller?
(a) Reported him to Schlage.
(b) Ordered him to the gas chamber.
(c) Shot him at point blank range.
(d) Beat him to death.

2. Who was the man muttering to himself in the ranks next to Muller?
(a) A lawyer from Muller's hometown.
(b) An old school chum of Muller's.
(c) Muller's father.
(d) A Rabbi that Muller once knew.

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

4. What happened to the women in Block 10 at Auschwitz?
(a) They were raped.
(b) They were sterilized.
(c) They were treated fairly well.
(d) They were left to die.

5. What was the job of a block orderly?
(a) Running messages back and forth.
(b) Keeping prisoners from fighting.
(c) Keeping the block clean and tidy.
(d) Relaying news to prisoners.

6. What did a Block Senior receive as a reward for making prisoners keep the block clean?
(a) A reprieve from death.
(b) An extra portion of soup.
(c) No beatings.
(d) Cigarettes.

7. As Filip waited for the return of Vacek and the others, what did he most fear might happen to him?
(a) Being struck on his bare buttocks.
(b) Sport in the yard.
(c) Being castrated.
(d) Being starved.

8. What did the statement, "he has gone to the wire" refer to?
(a) A prisoner who escapes past the wired fence.
(b) Someone who dared to climb the barbed-wire fence and fell.
(c) A prisoner who was killed by running into the electrified fence.
(d) The birds sitting on the wire fences.

9. What rank was Hauptsternfuhrer Hans Aumeier?
(a) Captain.
(b) General.
(c) Corporal.
(d) Sergeant.

10. 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.

11. What happened to Filip and the others as they were driven past the town of Auschwitz with the corpses?
(a) They fell off the truck.
(b) They were pinned down by the corpses' movement.
(c) They began to have severe panic attacks.
(d) They were given more bread by the driver.

12. What did Filip and the others throw on top of the mountain of bodies in the pit?
(a) The clothes of the dead.
(b) Dirty snow.
(c) Blankets.
(d) Chlorinated lime.

13. Who did the SS men believe to be responsible for the fire in the crematorium's chimney?
(a) Filip and Maurice.
(b) Vacek.
(c) Stark.
(d) Three prisoners who had refused to work anymore.

14. What was the inscription on the camp gate?
(a) "Work Is Good For the Soul."
(b) "Heil Hitler."
(c) "Work liberates."
(d) "Camp Auschwitz."

15. What was the view for the prisoners when they were moved from the dungeon to Cell 13?
(a) The entrace to the women's camp.
(b) The guard towers.
(c) The area where executions took place.
(d) A field of grass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the town that Filip Muller is from?

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

3. What was the ultimate fate of the prisoners that Vacek pulled out of the ranks?

4. What was compulsory on a Sunday afternoon?

5. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 595 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample