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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did patients who were brought to Birkenau from mental hospitals react to being told to undress before their execution?
(a) They resisted fiercely.
(b) With laughter.
(c) In different ways.
(d) With screams.

2. What happened to the Sonderkommando who told a woman in the crowd they were all to be exterminated?
(a) He was burned alive in front of the others.
(b) He was put into the general population.
(c) He was gassed with the crowd.
(d) He was shot to death.

3. 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.

4. How long did Filip live in Block 11 in Auschwitz before being sent to Birkenau?
(a) A year.
(b) Fourteen months.
(c) Three years.
(d) Six months.

5. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?
(a) To join the Sonderkommando there.
(b) To help with the burning of corpses.
(c) To move up in the ranks of his job.
(d) To bring chlorinated lime for the corpses.

6. Who did the inmates of Birkenau think the Family Camp was under the protection of?
(a) The Polish government.
(b) The media.
(c) The League of Nations.
(d) The International Red Cross.

7. 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) Theresienstadt.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Heydebreck.
(d) Sered.

8. 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.

9. Filip had one regret as he stood in the gas chamber, ready to die. What was it?
(a) He did not have the hand grenades.
(b) He did not write a will.
(c) He did not help one person to get out alive.
(d) He forgot to say goodbye to the others.

10. Why were the people in the Family Camp asked to write letters to family and friends days before their extermination?
(a) So handwriting could be examined.
(b) So officials could read them all first.
(c) To make it seem as though all was fine.
(d) To keep the prisoners busy.

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

12. What did the people who were machine-gunned and gassed in Chapter 3 pay a lot of money to the Gestapo for?
(a) Imprisonment instead of death.
(b) Immigration to Paraguay.
(c) An escape to Switzerland.
(d) A comfortable train ride to Auschwitz.

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

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

15. Who was called the "Angel of Death" by the men in the Sonderkommando?
(a) Voss.
(b) Hossler.
(c) Gorges.
(d) Hustek.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What prisoner, experienced in organizing conspiracies, was transferred back to Auschwitz?

3. What did members of the Family Camp think was happening when, after being warned, there was no violence towards them after a few days?

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

5. What did some of the Family Camp prisoners shout as they awaited death in the crematorium?

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