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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Serge so angry at Dr. Pach for giving medical treatment to prisoners?
(a) He had been beaten because the sick rate was too high.
(b) He believed all prisoners were faking it.
(c) He was sick and had not been treated.
(d) He wanted Dr. Pach's job.

2. How did the Family Camp react to the news that they would be gassed?
(a) WIth panic and alarm.
(b) With resignation.
(c) With disbelief.
(d) WIth prayers to God.

3. What did a female prisoner who was slowly stripping off her clothes do?
(a) Punched Quackernack in the groin.
(b) Foamed at her mouth in madness.
(c) Ripped her skin with her fingernails.
(d) Slammed her high heel into Quackernack's forehead.

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

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

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

7. How was the crowd treated by the "representative of the Foreign Ministry"?
(a) As though they were Aryan citizens of the Reich.
(b) With roughness and sarcasm.
(c) Brutally.
(d) Very politely.

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

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

10. 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) Pray.
(c) Resist.
(d) Scream.

11. What happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?
(a) They were often forgetten and starved to death.
(b) Many of them made it to freedom.
(c) They were caught by police dogs and executed.
(d) They were murdered in their hiding places.

12. What was Filip's friend, the last of seven from his hometown of Sered, planning to do at the time he learned of the plan to inform the Family Camp of their impending death?
(a) Organize some gold.
(b) Escape.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Bribe an officer.

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

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

15. Why was the technique thought up by the Kommandofuhrers and known as "express work" originally used?
(a) To save coke.
(b) To cut down on the men needed for the work.
(c) To burn bodies more quickly.
(d) It was done on the fastest train running.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?

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

3. What was Auschwitz fashion?

4. Why was Roehrig, a block senior, transferred to a penal company?

5. What was "Canada" in the camp?

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