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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 sadly at the people.
(c) Aiming their guns at people.
(d) Looking curiously inside.

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

4. Where did one of Filip's team find a hand grenade?
(a) In an urn at Auschwitz.
(b) In the pocket of a dead Ukranian SS man.
(c) In the new Birkenau crematoria.
(d) In Bunker 1.

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

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

7. 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) Sered.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Heydebreck.
(d) Theresienstadt.

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. While Filip was in the gas chamber, who did he look up to find surrounding him?
(a) His fellow Sonderkommandos.
(b) A group of people from the Family Camp.
(c) Vicious dogs.
(d) Some SS men.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Filip had one regret as he stood in the gas chamber, ready to die. What was it?

3. What did the contents of the note that Voss received in Chapter 4 tell him to do?

4. While Filip waited in the gas chamber, who did he learn had committed suicide?

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

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