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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 Vacek do to the prisoner who was mumbling next to Muller?
(a) Reported him to Schlage.
(b) Shot him at point blank range.
(c) Beat him to death.
(d) Ordered him to the gas chamber.

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

3. Who was the dead girl that Filip had to undress from his hometown?
(a) Yolanda Weiss.
(b) Yasmin Belath.
(c) Yolana Weis.
(d) Vlasta Sered.

4. Who was SS-Untersturmfuhrer Max Grabner?
(a) Chief of the crematorium operations.
(b) Chief of the Gestapo's political department.
(c) Master of the main camp.
(d) Top sergeant of the SS.

5. What did the green triangle on the uniform of the block clerk, Vacek, signify?
(a) He was a former professional criminal.
(b) He was Jewish.
(c) He was a former Christian who converted to Judaism.
(d) He was a German soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the ultimate fate of the prisoners that Vacek pulled out of the ranks?

2. Where were Filip and Maurice taken after being caught at the tea vats?

3. What was the name of Filip's bunk mate in Chapter 1?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Vacek do when the men got in line behind the wooden tea vats?

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

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

8. 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?

9. When Filip became a crematorium worker, what did he realize was his only chance of staying alive?

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

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