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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 rank was Hauptsternfuhrer Hans Aumeier?
(a) Corporal.
(b) Sergeant.
(c) Captain.
(d) General.

2. What was Filip ordered to do to the dead bodies in the cremation room?
(a) Bury them.
(b) Strip them of their clothing.
(c) Check to make sure they were dead.
(d) Haul them into a pile.

3. How many blankets did a prisoner in the block receive?
(a) One blanket.
(b) One and an extra if it was very cold.
(c) One blanket was shared by two prisoners.
(d) None.

4. What did Filip do to quench his thirst on Sunday afternoon?
(a) Drink the extra bowl of soup he managed to get.
(b) Sneak outside with his bunkmate.
(c) Drink from puddles on the ground.
(d) Steal another prisoner's water.

5. What is the Polish name for the town the Germans called Auschwitz?
(a) Augustow.
(b) Oswieczim.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Krakow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the word "organize" mean in the camp's slang?

2. Who was SS-Untersturmfuhrer Max Grabner?

3. What was Sonderbehandlung?

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

5. What genre does the story fall into?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the cell that Filip and the others were taken to after they had put the corpses into the pit.

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

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

7. Whose dead body did Filip realize he was taking cheese and matches from in the crematorium 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. What were the newly arrived prisoners standing outside the crematorium told by the SS men in order to get them to undress calmly?

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

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