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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 were the people in the crematorium killed with?
(a) Electric shocks.
(b) Machine guns.
(c) Lethal injections.
(d) Poison gas.

2. Why did Fischl get so upset with the other prisoners while he recited the Kaddish?
(a) The others were eating while he prayed.
(b) He couldn't remember the words.
(c) The others made fun of him.
(d) They talked while he tried to pray.

3. What worried Filip so much about a cut on his pinkie finger?
(a) Tetanus.
(b) Ptomaine poisoning.
(c) Bleeding to death.
(d) Stark seeing his wound.

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

5. What was the job of a block orderly?
(a) Keeping prisoners from fighting.
(b) Running messages back and forth.
(c) Relaying news to prisoners.
(d) Keeping the block clean and tidy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the SS men so concerned when they saw the bodies in the pit in the daylight?

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

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

4. How did prisoners have to do their weekly shaving?

5. Who was the dead girl that Filip had to undress from his hometown?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. What was "sport" at Auschwitz?

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