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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the quarrel between Mietek and Fischl over?
(a) Whether prayers could be said.
(b) Who worked the hardest.
(c) The food rations.
(d) Who should be Kapo.

2. What was the name of Filip's bunk mate in Chapter 1?
(a) Morris.
(b) Michael.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Manny.

3. What was compulsory on a Sunday afternoon?
(a) Pledges to the fuhrer.
(b) Prayer.
(c) A long hike for exercise.
(d) A rest.

4. What was the midday meal for prisoners?
(a) Bread and water.
(b) Sausage.
(c) Boiled potatoes.
(d) A thin soup.

5. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?
(a) None.
(b) One and an extra if it was very cold.
(c) One blanket was shared by two prisoners.
(d) One blanket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the prisoners who were forced to participate in the preparations for the exterminations separated into two groups at first?

2. Who was Vacek's second victim to be pulled out of the ranks?

3. What did Filip do to quench his thirst on Sunday afternoon?

4. What did the author overhear the prisoner next to him saying in Chapter 1?

5. What did Vacek do to the prisoner who was mumbling next to Muller?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the midday lunch the men were given in Chapter 1.

2. Besides the gas chamber, what other means of mass murder were used at Auschwitz?

3. What dream did Filip have the night he and the others finished the burial of the corpses in the pit?

4. What was known as Auschwitz justice as it concerned lice?

5. What did the lawyer in Chapter 1 do that cost him his life?

6. What was "sport" at Auschwitz?

7. How did Vacek come to be a block clerk at Auschwitz?

8. Explain the orders Vacek gave to the prisoners in the yard of Block 11.

9. Why were Filip and the others terrified as Aumeier and Grabner went from cell to cell in Block 11?

10. Whose dead body did Filip realize he was taking cheese and matches from in the crematorium in Chapter 2?

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