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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did the word "organize" mean in the camp's slang?
(a) To steal.
(b) To give orders to prisoners.
(c) To clean.
(d) To order goods.

5. What was Filip ordered to do to the dead bodies in the cremation room?
(a) Haul them into a pile.
(b) Check to make sure they were dead.
(c) Bury them.
(d) Strip them of their clothing.

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

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

8. What was the rank of a Rottenfuhrer?
(a) Sergeant.
(b) Sergeant Major.
(c) Lance Corporal.
(d) Captain.

9. What did the author overhear the prisoner next to him saying in Chapter 1?
(a) Nonsensical mumbling.
(b) Curses at the Germans.
(c) Prayers to God to save him.
(d) Mumbles of disbelief at the happenings.

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

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

12. What were Filip and the others ordered to do with the clothing left behind by those just murdered in the crematorium?
(a) Place them on the dead bodies.
(b) Give them to the next crowd coming out.
(c) Sort them into separate piles.
(d) Burn them.

13. What is the name of the town that Filip Muller is from?
(a) Trencin.
(b) Presburg.
(c) Trnava.
(d) Sered.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What worried Filip so much about a cut on his pinkie finger?

3. What did Vacek force the prisoners to do that he had pulled out of the ranks?

4. What was the inscription on the camp gate?

5. What rank was Hauptsternfuhrer Hans Aumeier?

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