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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Filip do to quench his thirst on Sunday afternoon?
(a) Steal another prisoner's water.
(b) Sneak outside with his bunkmate.
(c) Drink the extra bowl of soup he managed to get.
(d) Drink from puddles on the ground.

3. Why were the SS men so concerned when they saw the bodies in the pit in the daylight?
(a) The water in the pit was rising and the bodies were not buried.
(b) The bodies were extremely slippery.
(c) The bodies were swollen and hard to look at.
(d) They didn't think Filip and the others were stong enough to bury the dead.

4. Who was Fischl?
(a) The inmate who refused to remove a corpse's gold teeth.
(b) One of the SS soldiers.
(c) The guard in charge of the crematorium.
(d) The inmate who cleaned the oven grates.

5. What was a blockfuhrer?
(a) An SS man who supervised work in some blocks.
(b) An executioner in the gas chambers.
(c) The SS man in charge of all the blocks in the camp.
(d) The lead prisoner in each block.

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

7. After the SS men, Aumeier and Grabner, convened as to the viability of the pit they had driven to, what were the prisoners ordered to do?
(a) Go back to the camp.
(b) Dig a bigger pit.
(c) Throw the corpses into the pit.
(d) Take a short nap.

8. How many times had the prisoners already repeated Vacek's same command at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) 120 times.
(b) Twice.
(c) 100 times.
(d) 30 times.

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

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

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

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

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

14. From what point of view is the story told?
(a) Omnisicient.
(b) Third person.
(c) Second Person.
(d) First person.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the people in the crematorium killed with?

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

3. What did Filip imagine might be done to him if they tied his hands behind his back?

4. Who was Schlage?

5. What did Vacek do to the prisoner who was mumbling next to Muller?

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