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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) Yolanda Weiss.
(b) Yolana Weis.
(c) Yasmin Belath.
(d) Vlasta Sered.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What was the title given to Filip's working party by Stark?
(a) Jews.
(b) Auschwitz Army.
(c) Fischl Team.
(d) Muller People.

9. 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) Cigarettes.
(d) No beatings.

10. Who was SS-Untersturmfuhrer Max Grabner?
(a) Chief of the Gestapo's political department.
(b) Top sergeant of the SS.
(c) Chief of the crematorium operations.
(d) Master of the main camp.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only Polish word that Aumeier learned in order to make himself understood by his victims?

2. What happened to Filip and the others as they were driven past the town of Auschwitz with the corpses?

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

4. What was the emblem on the side of the truck that took the men back and forth to the mass grave?

5. What genre does the story fall into?

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