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

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

3. 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) Cigarettes.
(d) An extra portion of soup.

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

5. Who was Fischl?
(a) The inmate who refused to remove a corpse's gold teeth.
(b) The guard in charge of the crematorium.
(c) The inmate who cleaned the oven grates.
(d) One of the SS soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the town that Filip Muller is from?

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

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

4. What size was the cell that Filip and the others were brought to at the end of their eventful day in Chapter 2?

5. What was the job of the block clerk?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. When Filip and the others were ordered to search and separate the victim's clothing in Chapter 2, how were the items sorted?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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