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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?
(a) Back to Germany.
(b) Poland.
(c) England.
(d) Switzerland.

5. What was a bum-boy?
(a) A bookkeeper.
(b) A prisoner who lost the will to live.
(c) A Polish prisoner.
(d) Someone who served Kapos and block seniors.

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

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

8. What did the SS threaten the prisoners of the Family Camp with after a few of them rushed toward the doors and were killed?
(a) Torture.
(b) Machine guns.
(c) Electrocution.
(d) Small-bore rifles.

9. 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) Commit suicide.
(b) Bribe an officer.
(c) Escape.
(d) Organize some gold.

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

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

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

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

14. What was a "mussulman"?
(a) The kind of fish the SS men ate at dinner.
(b) A prisoner who had lost the will to live.
(c) A rank of officer.
(d) The prisoners who grew muscular from carrying heavy loads.

15. Who told Filip "..it is vital that you should see everything, experience everything, go through everything and consciously record everything in your mind"?
(a) Yana.
(b) Sasha.
(c) Kaminski.
(d) Mengele.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What was "Canada" in the camp?

4. What did the SS men do as the prisoners from the Family Camp began to sing as they were pushed towards the gas chambers?

5. What happened to the gold teeth pulled from the mouths of those gassed?

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