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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 name for a prisoner entrusted with special duties by the SS?
(a) Oberaufseherin.
(b) Funktionshaftling.
(c) Kapo.
(d) Scharfuhrer.

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

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

4. What did Maurice and Filip do with the crowbars and hammers Stark gave them?
(a) Damage the fire-brick lining.
(b) Open the gates of the oven.
(c) Attack Stark.
(d) LIft the corpses.

5. What was the only Polish word that Aumeier learned in order to make himself understood by his victims?
(a) Szybko (faster).
(b) Psa (dog).
(c) Ide (go).
(d) Kota (cat).

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times had the prisoners already repeated Vacek's same command at the beginning of Chapter 1?

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

3. What was the view for the prisoners when they were moved from the dungeon to Cell 13?

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

5. Who was Fischl?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was "sport" at Auschwitz?

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

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

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

7. What new procedure did Filip witness being tried out for the first time in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

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