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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When one of the Sonderkommandos told a woman he recognized that she was about to be gassed to death, what did she do?
(a) Committed suicide.
(b) Cried silently.
(c) Disfigured herself with her nails and foamed at the mouth.
(d) Calmly agreed to spread the word.

4. What prisoner, experienced in organizing conspiracies, was transferred back to Auschwitz?
(a) Princip.
(b) Vladek.
(c) Gorges.
(d) Voss.

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. How many Red Army prisoners of war were left alive by January, 1945, out of the 13,000 taken?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 100.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 1,300.

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

11. 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.

12. 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) Heydebreck.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Sered.

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

14. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?
(a) Dajan.
(b) Mietek.
(c) Kurschuss.
(d) Gorges.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, when a crowd of 1,000 people undressed, what did they begin to do when they realized they would be killed?

2. What weaponry had Filip's group acquired as of the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. How did patients who were brought to Birkenau from mental hospitals react to being told to undress before their execution?

4. What was an SS-Oberaufseherin?

5. 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?

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