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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 screams.
(d) With laughter.

4. What did the contents of the note that Voss received in Chapter 4 tell him to do?
(a) Deconstruct the Family Camp the following week.
(b) Release the inmates of the Family Camp.
(c) Make room for the arrival of another Family.
(d) Gas the inmates of the Family Camp.

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

6. What happened to the gold teeth pulled from the mouths of those gassed?
(a) They were sent to the Nazi front ranks.
(b) Most of them were organized by the Sonderkommando.
(c) They were hoarded by the SS.
(d) They were melted and formed into bars.

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

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

9. How did the Family Camp react to the news that they would be gassed?
(a) With disbelief.
(b) WIth prayers to God.
(c) WIth panic and alarm.
(d) With resignation.

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

11. How did Filip know Alfred Wetzler?
(a) From school.
(b) From the crematorium.
(c) From the Jewish ghetto.
(d) From Auschwitz.

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

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

14. Why was the technique thought up by the Kommandofuhrers and known as "express work" originally used?
(a) To burn bodies more quickly.
(b) To cut down on the men needed for the work.
(c) To save coke.
(d) It was done on the fastest train running.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was an SS-Oberaufseherin?

2. Who was called the "Angel of Death" by the men in the Sonderkommando?

3. How many Red Army prisoners of war were left alive by January, 1945, out of the 13,000 taken?

4. What were SS men most likely to be bribed with?

5. What was a Volksdeutscher?

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