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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When hundred of prisoners were beaten and ordered to undress in the yard, what did Fischl do?
(a) Cursed.
(b) Objected.
(c) Prayed.
(d) Cried loudly.

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

3. What did Vacek order to be done with the tea that the prisoners were to drink?
(a) Have it thrown into the gully-drain.
(b) It was to be used for the evening's bath.
(c) Have it thrown into the men's faces.
(d) It would be sent back to be used the next day.

4. What was Vacek's first victim's handicap?
(a) He was partially deaf.
(b) He was missing his right leg.
(c) He had a limp.
(d) His right hand was paralyzed.

5. 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 were given more bread by the driver.
(d) They began to have severe panic attacks.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

15. What was the job of the block clerk?
(a) To block prisoner's movements around the camp.
(b) To count all of the gold teeth coming into the camp.
(c) To keep track of the spending of money.
(d) To record data and movements of prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Why were the prisoners who were forced to participate in the preparations for the exterminations separated into two groups at first?

5. What did the word "organize" mean in the camp's slang?

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