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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where was it most difficult for a prisoner to go?
(a) The women's camp.
(b) The black wall.
(c) Ouside.
(d) The crematorium.

4. 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) To identify the bodies after the gassing.
(d) So the SS would know who each person was according to their name.

5. 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.

6. Who did the inmates of Birkenau think the Family Camp was under the protection of?
(a) The International Red Cross.
(b) The media.
(c) The League of Nations.
(d) The Polish government.

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

8. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?
(a) To move up in the ranks of his job.
(b) To join the Sonderkommando there.
(c) To bring chlorinated lime for the corpses.
(d) To help with the burning of corpses.

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

10. What did the SS men do as the prisoners from the Family Camp began to sing as they were pushed towards the gas chambers?
(a) Machine-gunned the last few to enter.
(b) Continued to beat the prisoners.
(c) Began to sing with them.
(d) Taped their mouths shut.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did patients who were brought to Birkenau from mental hospitals react to being told to undress before their execution?

2. Why was Serge so angry at Dr. Pach for giving medical treatment to prisoners?

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

4. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?

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

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