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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was "Canada" in the camp?
(a) Where belongings of Jews were stored.
(b) The area where the SS men ate their meals.
(c) The coldest section of the camp.
(d) An uncompleted camp where prisoners had no clothing.

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

6. What did a female prisoner who was slowly stripping off her clothes do?
(a) Foamed at her mouth in madness.
(b) Punched Quackernack in the groin.
(c) Slammed her high heel into Quackernack's forehead.
(d) Ripped her skin with her fingernails.

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

9. What was an SS-Oberaufseherin?
(a) Head wardress.
(b) First lieutenant.
(c) Platoon sergeant.
(d) Working team.

10. Why did the Sonderkommandos have their own hospital?
(a) They were the elite prisoners.
(b) They tended to get sicker than the rest.
(c) To treat the men in isolation.
(d) To show the men some kindness.

11. What plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?
(a) Escape in the middle of the night.
(b) Inform the next Polish transport of their imminent death.
(c) Bribe every SS man that they knew would help them out.
(d) Build an underground tunnel.

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

13. 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) Volunteer SS in Slovakia.
(b) Racist Slovakians who hated everyone.
(c) Hlinka guardsmen.
(d) Germans living in this country.

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

15. 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) Continued to beat the prisoners.
(b) Began to sing with them.
(c) Taped their mouths shut.
(d) Machine-gunned the last few to enter.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Sonderkommando members asked the Resistance in the camp to plan a mass escape, what were they told?

2. Who told Filip "..it is vital that you should see everything, experience everything, go through everything and consciously record everything in your mind"?

3. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?

4. When the Nazis invaded Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, where were the Jews first removed from?

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

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