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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 did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?
(a) Smuggled him in.
(b) Spoke to Obersturmfuhrer Weber.
(c) Pleaded with Mietek.
(d) Bribed the Kapo.

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

3. What genre does the story fall into?
(a) Memoir.
(b) Novel.
(c) Biography.
(d) Mystery.

4. What did Vacek order to be done with the tea that the prisoners were to drink?
(a) It would be sent back to be used the next day.
(b) It was to be used for the evening's bath.
(c) Have it thrown into the gully-drain.
(d) Have it thrown into the men's faces.

5. Who was Fischl?
(a) The inmate who cleaned the oven grates.
(b) The guard in charge of the crematorium.
(c) The inmate who refused to remove a corpse's gold teeth.
(d) One of the SS soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the man muttering to himself in the ranks next to Muller?

2. What was one of Vacek's commands to the lined-up prisoners in the yard of Block 11?

3. What were the people in the crematorium killed with?

4. What was eventually done with the two groups witnessing and helping with the gassing of prisoners in Chapter 2?

5. What did the statement, "he has gone to the wire" refer to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan did Filip's bunk mate have in order to quench their thirst?

2. What were the Kapo's incentives to victimize some of the men at the morning exercise?

3. What were Filip's thoughts after he and Maurice were caught drinking tea and awaited punishment?

4. Why did the lawyer standing next to Muller begin to complain?

5. As Filip stood against the wall of the crematorium and contemplated the fate of the hundreds of new prisoners being brought through the gates, what did he ask himself?

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

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

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

9. What were the newly arrived prisoners standing outside the crematorium told by the SS men in order to get them to undress calmly?

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

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