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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. Why did Filip assume that a car with its headlamps on was driving behind the truck with the prisoners and the corpses?
(a) To be assured that no corpses fell out of the truck.
(b) To help light the way for the truck.
(c) To make sure the weary prisoners did not escape in the night.
(d) To help them at their destination.

2. What did a Block Senior receive as a reward for making prisoners keep the block clean?
(a) A reprieve from death.
(b) No beatings.
(c) An extra portion of soup.
(d) Cigarettes.

3. From what point of view is the story told?
(a) Third person.
(b) Omnisicient.
(c) First person.
(d) Second Person.

4. Why were the SS men so concerned when they saw the bodies in the pit in the daylight?
(a) The bodies were swollen and hard to look at.
(b) The water in the pit was rising and the bodies were not buried.
(c) They didn't think Filip and the others were stong enough to bury the dead.
(d) The bodies were extremely slippery.

5. Where were Filip and Maurice taken after being caught at the tea vats?
(a) To the tower with Schlage.
(b) To Vacek's office.
(c) Opposite the blockfuhrer's room.
(d) Near the gallows area.

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. What did Vacek force the prisoners to do that he had pulled out of the ranks?

3. What was compulsory on a Sunday afternoon?

4. What genre does the story fall into?

5. Where did Stark bring Maurice and Filip after they were caught stealing tea?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. What was "sport" at Auschwitz?

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

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

9. What did Filip wonder about Stark as he thought of the man's actions at the camp?

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

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