2. How did the SS treat the members of the Family Camp as they were entering the crematorium yard?
(a) As though they were in no danger.
(b) Fairly.
(c) WIth dignity.
(d) With undisguised cruelty.

3. Who pretended to be a representative of the Foreign Ministry to a crowd of people about to be gassed to death?
(a) Hossler.
(b) Voss.
(c) Kaminski.
(d) Schwarzhuber.

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

5. What did the girl, Yana, tell Filip to give to her boyfriend after she was dead?
(a) A ring.
(b) Her gold chain.
(c) Her hair.
(d) A hug goodbye.

6. 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) Pray.
(b) Scream.
(c) Resist.
(d) Run.

7. What did the SS men do as the prisoners from the Family Camp began to sing as they were pushed towards the gas chambers?
(a) Taped their mouths shut.
(b) Machine-gunned the last few to enter.
(c) Continued to beat the prisoners.
(d) Began to sing with them.

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

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

10. What was Auschwitz fashion?
(a) A coat with pockets for "organizing".
(b) Having a shaved head to avoid lice.
(c) Imitating the SS through dress.
(d) Wearing striped suits.

11. What did the term "selection" mean at Birkenau and other camps?
(a) Advance in rank.
(b) Chosen for a special job.
(c) Extermination.
(d) Being sent to an isolation cell.

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

13. Where was it most difficult for a prisoner to go?
(a) Ouside.
(b) The black wall.
(c) The women's camp.
(d) The crematorium.

14. In Chapter 3, when a crowd of 1,000 people undressed, what did they begin to do when they realized they would be killed?
(a) Threw their clothing at the German soldiers.
(b) They began to dress again.
(c) Cried and prayed silently.
(d) Nothing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Filip "..it is vital that you should see everything, experience everything, go through everything and consciously record everything in your mind"?

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

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

4. What did Filip encounter when he went to Crematorium 3 for the first time?

5. What did Johann Gorges' nickname, Moische Borak, mean?

(see the answer keys)

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