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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was called the "Angel of Death" by the men in the Sonderkommando?
(a) Hossler.
(b) Hustek.
(c) Gorges.
(d) Voss.

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

5. 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) Switzerland.
(c) England.
(d) Poland.

6. What drew Filip near the people of the Family Camp as they were in the changing room?
(a) A common language, religion and culture.
(b) To warn them one more time.
(c) His anger at them.
(d) It was his job to be there.

7. 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.

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

9. Who was the doctor in charge of the Sonderkommando hospital in Birkenau?
(a) Dr. Serge.
(b) Dr. Daniel Obstbaum.
(c) Dr. Jean Langer.
(d) Dr. Jacques Pach.

10. 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) 1,300.
(d) 1,000.

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

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

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

14. 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?
(a) Protesting to the SS.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Whispering to each other about an escape plan.
(d) Praying aloud the same prayers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did the SS leader, Schwarzhuber, tell the Family Camp they would be going a few days before they were led to the crematorium?

3. Why were the prisoners of the Sonderkommando at first kept away from the last group of prisoners to be killed in Chapter 3?

4. How did Filip know Alfred Wetzler?

5. Why did the Sonderkommandos have their own hospital?

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