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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the green triangle on the uniform of the block clerk, Vacek, signify?
(a) He was a German soldier.
(b) He was a former professional criminal.
(c) He was a former Christian who converted to Judaism.
(d) He was Jewish.

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

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

5. What happened to the women in Block 10 at Auschwitz?
(a) They were treated fairly well.
(b) They were sterilized.
(c) They were raped.
(d) They were left to die.

6. Who was the man muttering to himself in the ranks next to Muller?
(a) A lawyer from Muller's hometown.
(b) An old school chum of Muller's.
(c) Muller's father.
(d) A Rabbi that Muller once knew.

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

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

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

10. What genre does the story fall into?
(a) Biography.
(b) Memoir.
(c) Mystery.
(d) Novel.

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

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

13. What was Sonderbehandlung?
(a) Lance sergeant.
(b) Penal company.
(c) Selection for extermination.
(d) Secret code word for murdering.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who caught Muller at the cauldron of tea?

3. Why did a prisoner approach Schlage as Schlage looked over the ranks of men?

4. What rank was Hauptsternfuhrer Hans Aumeier?

5. Where were Filip and Maurice taken after being caught at the tea vats?

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