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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did the SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?
(a) Bread rations.
(b) A treasured cookie.
(c) Lashing with a whip.
(d) Orders to be still.

5. Why did Fischl get so upset with the other prisoners while he recited the Kaddish?
(a) He couldn't remember the words.
(b) The others were eating while he prayed.
(c) The others made fun of him.
(d) They talked while he tried to pray.

6. What did Filip imagine might be done to him if they tied his hands behind his back?
(a) They would then cut his hands off.
(b) He would then be suspended by his fastened hands.
(c) He would have to perform his work like that.
(d) He would be left in a hole to die.

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

8. What did Maurice and Filip do with the crowbars and hammers Stark gave them?
(a) Damage the fire-brick lining.
(b) LIft the corpses.
(c) Open the gates of the oven.
(d) Attack Stark.

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

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

11. What did Vacek force the prisoners to do that he had pulled out of the ranks?
(a) The work of the other prisoners.
(b) Crawl to the infirmary.
(c) 100 push ups.
(d) Run, following commands, or get beaten.

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

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

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

15. Before the SS men poured the deadly gas crystals into the gas chamber, what did they do?
(a) Told the people inside to lie down.
(b) Turned the hot water on for the showers.
(c) Put on gas masks.
(d) Turned on the truck engines.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the green triangle on the uniform of the block clerk, Vacek, signify?

3. Where did Stark bring Maurice and Filip after they were caught stealing tea?

4. What was a blockfuhrer?

5. 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?

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