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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were SS men most likely to be bribed with?
(a) Gold, dollars and diamonds.
(b) Gold, diamonds and deutsche marks.
(c) Sex, gold and dollars.
(d) Drugs, diamonds and dollars.

2. What drew Filip near the people of the Family Camp as they were in the changing room?
(a) His anger at them.
(b) A common language, religion and culture.
(c) It was his job to be there.
(d) To warn them one more time.

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

4. What piece of evidence concerning the death camp did Filip obtain for the Resistance?
(a) Women's hair.
(b) Ashes from the ovens.
(c) The note about the Family Camp.
(d) Labels from Zyclon B gas tins.

5. What was "Canada" in the camp?
(a) An uncompleted camp where prisoners had no clothing.
(b) The area where the SS men ate their meals.
(c) The coldest section of the camp.
(d) Where belongings of Jews were stored.

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

7. What did the so-called representative of the Foreign Ministry tell the crowd they could not leave without?
(a) A certificate of disinfection.
(b) A letter of introduction.
(c) Their clean clothing.
(d) A haircut.

8. Who did Filip notice in the front rank of the Sonderkommando group he was in at Birkenau?
(a) Mietek.
(b) Vicek.
(c) Fischl.
(d) Bruck.

9. What plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?
(a) Escape in the middle of the night.
(b) Build an underground tunnel.
(c) Inform the next Polish transport of their imminent death.
(d) Bribe every SS man that they knew would help them out.

10. Where did one of Filip's team find a hand grenade?
(a) In Bunker 1.
(b) In the new Birkenau crematoria.
(c) In an urn at Auschwitz.
(d) In the pocket of a dead Ukranian SS man.

11. How did the Sonderkommando's doctor's wife try to follow him as he was being deported?
(a) She bribed an SS man.
(b) She joined a crowd marked with the Star of David.
(c) She sewed a Star of David onto her coat.
(d) She clung to his legs and was dragged along.

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

13. When the Nazis invaded Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, where were the Jews first removed from?
(a) Shops.
(b) Swimming baths.
(c) The Civil Service.
(d) Their homes.

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

15. When the SS men assembled about 2,000 people to the crematorium yard in Chapter 3, what did one man lead the people to do?
(a) Run.
(b) Resist.
(c) Scream.
(d) Pray.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the SS treat the members of the Family Camp as they were entering the crematorium yard?

3. What did the girls in the gas chamber do to Filip?

4. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?

5. What did the term "selection" mean at Birkenau and other camps?

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