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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 compulsory on a Sunday afternoon?
(a) A long hike for exercise.
(b) Pledges to the fuhrer.
(c) Prayer.
(d) A rest.

2. Where did Stark bring Maurice and Filip after they were caught stealing tea?
(a) The gulley to drink.
(b) To see Schlage.
(c) The bunks.
(d) The crematorium.

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

4. What was the inscription on the camp gate?
(a) "Work liberates."
(b) "Work Is Good For the Soul."
(c) "Camp Auschwitz."
(d) "Heil Hitler."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take a prisoner's body to burn in the oven?

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

3. What was eventually done with the two groups witnessing and helping with the gassing of prisoners in Chapter 2?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was "sport" at Auschwitz?

5. How did Filip's health deteriorate at the time he was given the job of stripping dead bodies of their clothes?

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. What caught Filip's attention as he gulped down the tea from the vat with Maurice?

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