2. 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.

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

4. What piece of evidence concerning the death camp did Filip obtain for the Resistance?
(a) The note about the Family Camp.
(b) Women's hair.
(c) Ashes from the ovens.
(d) Labels from Zyclon B gas tins.

5. 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) Germans living in this country.
(d) Hlinka guardsmen.

6. 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) Aiming their guns at people.
(c) Looking curiously inside.
(d) Looking sadly at the people.

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

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

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

10. What did the people who were machine-gunned and gassed in Chapter 3 pay a lot of money to the Gestapo for?
(a) Immigration to Paraguay.
(b) Imprisonment instead of death.
(c) An escape to Switzerland.
(d) A comfortable train ride to Auschwitz.

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

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

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

14. While Filip waited in the gas chamber, who did he learn had committed suicide?
(a) Langer.
(b) Daniel Ostbaum.
(c) Fredi Hirsch.
(d) Maurice.

15. What were SS men most likely to be bribed with?
(a) Drugs, diamonds and dollars.
(b) Gold, dollars and diamonds.
(c) Sex, gold and dollars.
(d) Gold, diamonds and deutsche marks.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How was the crowd treated by the "representative of the Foreign Ministry"?

5. What was a Volksdeutscher?

(see the answer keys)

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