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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Sonderkommando members asked the Resistance in the camp to plan a mass escape, what were they told?
(a) There was too much fear.
(b) They would soon be freed by the Russians.
(c) They agreed to it.
(d) Wait for warmer weather.

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

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

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

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

6. What did Filip encounter when he went to Crematorium 3 for the first time?
(a) Women's hair drying on the brick floor.
(b) Stray hairs blowing in the wind.
(c) Women's hair being shaved off their heads.
(d) Hair being made into wigs.

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

8. What was a Volksdeutscher?
(a) A believer in the German tradition.
(b) A follower of Hitler.
(c) An ethnic German.
(d) A person born and bred in Germany.

9. What were Schwarzhuber and Dr. Mangele doing when Filip saw them through the open door of the gas chamber?
(a) Cursing at the prisoners.
(b) Looking curiously inside.
(c) Looking sadly at the people.
(d) Aiming their guns at people.

10. Why were Filip and others made to stand among the crowd in Chapter 3 holding up letters of the alphabet?
(a) To identify the bodies after the gassing.
(b) To call each group of prisoners into the crematorium by last name.
(c) So the SS would know who each person was according to their name.
(d) To make them believe they would be waiting for the train according to their name.

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

12. 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) Cried and prayed silently.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They began to dress again.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Filip live in Block 11 in Auschwitz before being sent to Birkenau?

2. Where did one of Filip's team find a hand grenade?

3. While Filip was in the gas chamber, who did he look up to find surrounding him?

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

5. What did a female prisoner who was slowly stripping off her clothes do?

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