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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Roehrig, a block senior, transferred to a penal company?
(a) He refused to use a truncheon on prisoners.
(b) He stole a gold chain.
(c) He would not have his head shaved.
(d) He tried to help some Family Camp members escape.

2. Where did the SS leader, Schwarzhuber, tell the Family Camp they would be going a few days before they were led to the crematorium?
(a) Heydebreck.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Theresienstadt.
(d) Sered.

3. What did Johann Gorges' nickname, Moische Borak, mean?
(a) Stonewall faced.
(b) Ugly man.
(c) Beetroot face.
(d) Evil one.

4. As Filip considered what his life would be like if he survived the war, he thought of running into the FS men. Who were they?
(a) Volunteer SS in Slovakia.
(b) Hlinka guardsmen.
(c) Racist Slovakians who hated everyone.
(d) Germans living in this country.

5. What happened to Daniel Obstbaum?
(a) He escaped with Fero Langer.
(b) He was shot trying to escape.
(c) He was given a week's special leave.
(d) He bribed Dobrowolny, an old schoolmate.

6. Who was the doctor in charge of the Sonderkommando hospital in Birkenau?
(a) Dr. Jean Langer.
(b) Dr. Jacques Pach.
(c) Dr. Daniel Obstbaum.
(d) Dr. Serge.

7. How did Filip know Alfred Wetzler?
(a) From the Jewish ghetto.
(b) From the crematorium.
(c) From Auschwitz.
(d) From school.

8. What did almost every prisoner in the Sonderkommando spend a great deal of time doing?
(a) Eating.
(b) Organizing.
(c) Beating others.
(d) Sleeping.

9. What did some of the Family Camp prisoners shout as they awaited death in the crematorium?
(a) "We want to live!"
(b) "What is happening?"
(c) "End the war!"
(d) "You lied to us!"

10. Where did the majority of the people in the Family Camp come from?
(a) Theresienstadt.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Berlin.

11. When half of the crowd at the end of Chapter 3 were behind the door of the crematorium, what was the other half, still dressed, doing?
(a) Praying aloud the same prayers.
(b) Whispering to each other about an escape plan.
(c) Protesting to the SS.
(d) Nothing.

12. What happened to the gold teeth pulled from the mouths of those gassed?
(a) They were hoarded by the SS.
(b) They were melted and formed into bars.
(c) Most of them were organized by the Sonderkommando.
(d) They were sent to the Nazi front ranks.

13. What was an SS-Oberaufseherin?
(a) First lieutenant.
(b) Platoon sergeant.
(c) Working team.
(d) Head wardress.

14. After a while, how did Filip and other Sonderkommandos regard anybody arriving at the crematorium?
(a) As though they were family.
(b) As a victim of their own doing.
(c) As doomed to die.
(d) With a glimmer of hope that someone would make it out alive.

15. Why did the Sonderkommandos have their own hospital?
(a) They were the elite prisoners.
(b) To show the men some kindness.
(c) They tended to get sicker than the rest.
(d) To treat the men in isolation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a Volksdeutscher?

2. Who decided, with a plan to help, that the Family Camp must be warned at once about their impending doom?

3. Who did the inmates of Birkenau think the Family Camp was under the protection of?

4. Who was called the "Angel of Death" by the men in the Sonderkommando?

5. What piece of evidence concerning the death camp did Filip obtain for the Resistance?

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