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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What weaponry had Filip's group acquired as of the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Shotguns and pistols.
(b) Machine guns, hand grenades and revolvers.
(c) Hand grenades, revolvers and pistols.
(d) Knives and hand grenades.

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

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

5. What did the girls in the gas chamber do to Filip?
(a) Hugged him tightly.
(b) Thanked him for being there.
(c) Pushed him out the door.
(d) Asked for his help.

6. What was Auschwitz fashion?
(a) Imitating the SS through dress.
(b) Having a shaved head to avoid lice.
(c) Wearing striped suits.
(d) A coat with pockets for "organizing".

7. As Filip considered what his life would be like if he survived the war, he thought of running into the FS men. Who were they?
(a) Racist Slovakians who hated everyone.
(b) Germans living in this country.
(c) Hlinka guardsmen.
(d) Volunteer SS in Slovakia.

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

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

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

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

12. When the Nazis invaded Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, where were the Jews first removed from?
(a) Shops.
(b) Their homes.
(c) Swimming baths.
(d) The Civil Service.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to the Sonderkommando who told a woman in the crowd they were all to be exterminated?

3. Why was the technique thought up by the Kommandofuhrers and known as "express work" originally used?

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

5. How did Filip know Alfred Wetzler?

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