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

2. What was the name of Filip's bunk mate in Chapter 1?
(a) Manny.
(b) Michael.
(c) Morris.
(d) Maurice.

3. What was the emblem on the side of the truck that took the men back and forth to the mass grave?
(a) The International Red Cross.
(b) A skull and crossbones.
(c) A dove.
(d) The Nazi Swastika.

4. What did the word "organize" mean in the camp's slang?
(a) To steal.
(b) To order goods.
(c) To clean.
(d) To give orders to prisoners.

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 make sure the weary prisoners did not escape in the night.
(b) To help them at their destination.
(c) To help light the way for the truck.
(d) To be assured that no corpses fell out of the truck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the women in Block 10 at Auschwitz?

2. Who was Fischl?

3. What was an Unterscharfuhrer?

4. What was the title given to Filip's working party by Stark?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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