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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the Polish name for the town the Germans called Auschwitz?
(a) Krakow.
(b) Oswieczim.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Augustow.
2. What was the view for the prisoners when they were moved from the dungeon to Cell 13?
(a) A field of grass.
(b) The guard towers.
(c) The entrace to the women's camp.
(d) The area where executions took place.
3. What was the quarrel between Mietek and Fischl over?
(a) Who worked the hardest.
(b) Who should be Kapo.
(c) Whether prayers could be said.
(d) The food rations.
4. 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.
5. What did Filip and the others throw on top of the mountain of bodies in the pit?
(a) Dirty snow.
(b) The clothes of the dead.
(c) Chlorinated lime.
(d) Blankets.
6. Why did Filip assume that a car with its headlamps on was driving behind the truck with the prisoners and the corpses?
(a) To make sure the weary prisoners did not escape in the night.
(b) To help them at their destination.
(c) To be assured that no corpses fell out of the truck.
(d) To help light the way for the truck.
7. What was one of Vacek's commands to the lined-up prisoners in the yard of Block 11?
(a) "Caps off!"
(b) "Attention!"
(c) "Silence now!"
(d) "Forward march!"
8. What was the job of a block orderly?
(a) Keeping the block clean and tidy.
(b) Running messages back and forth.
(c) Relaying news to prisoners.
(d) Keeping prisoners from fighting.
9. What size was the cell that Filip and the others were brought to at the end of their eventful day in Chapter 2?
(a) As large as the crematorium.
(b) Eight feet by ten feet.
(c) There was no way to tell.
(d) Three paces long by three paces wide.
10. What was the inscription on the camp gate?
(a) "Work Is Good For the Soul."
(b) "Camp Auschwitz."
(c) "Work liberates."
(d) "Heil Hitler."
11. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?
(a) One blanket was shared by two prisoners.
(b) None.
(c) One and an extra if it was very cold.
(d) One blanket.
12. What worried Filip so much about a cut on his pinkie finger?
(a) Stark seeing his wound.
(b) Tetanus.
(c) Bleeding to death.
(d) Ptomaine poisoning.
13. What did Filip imagine might be done to him if they tied his hands behind his back?
(a) He would then be suspended by his fastened hands.
(b) They would then cut his hands off.
(c) He would have to perform his work like that.
(d) He would be left in a hole to die.
14. 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.
15. 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 Jewish.
(d) He was a former Christian who converted to Judaism.
Short Answer Questions
1. What rank was Hauptsternfuhrer Hans Aumeier?
2. What was the only Polish word that Aumeier learned in order to make himself understood by his victims?
3. What was the job of the block clerk?
4. What was Sonderbehandlung?
5. How did prisoners have to do their weekly shaving?
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