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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

7. How was the crowd treated by the "representative of the Foreign Ministry"?
(a) Very politely.
(b) As though they were Aryan citizens of the Reich.
(c) With roughness and sarcasm.
(d) Brutally.

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

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

10. When the Sonderkommando members asked the Resistance in the camp to plan a mass escape, what were they told?
(a) They would soon be freed by the Russians.
(b) Wait for warmer weather.
(c) They agreed to it.
(d) There was too much fear.

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

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

13. 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.

14. What was Filip's friend, the last of seven from his hometown of Sered, planning to do at the time he learned of the plan to inform the Family Camp of their impending death?
(a) Commit suicide.
(b) Escape.
(c) Organize some gold.
(d) Bribe an officer.

15. Why was Serge so angry at Dr. Pach for giving medical treatment to prisoners?
(a) He believed all prisoners were faking it.
(b) He was sick and had not been treated.
(c) He had been beaten because the sick rate was too high.
(d) He wanted Dr. Pach's job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a Volksdeutscher?

2. What did the people who were machine-gunned and gassed in Chapter 3 pay a lot of money to the Gestapo for?

3. How did Filip know Alfred Wetzler?

4. What did the so-called representative of the Foreign Ministry tell the crowd they could not leave without?

5. What was an SS-Oberaufseherin?

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