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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 the green triangle on the uniform of the block clerk, Vacek, signify?
(a) He was a former professional criminal.
(b) He was a former Christian who converted to Judaism.
(c) He was Jewish.
(d) He was a German soldier.

2. What did Filip do in order to get his father put on the bricklayers' team?
(a) Spoke to Obersturmfuhrer Weber.
(b) Smuggled him in.
(c) Pleaded with Mietek.
(d) Bribed the Kapo.

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

4. Who was the man muttering to himself in the ranks next to Muller?
(a) A Rabbi that Muller once knew.
(b) An old school chum of Muller's.
(c) Muller's father.
(d) A lawyer from Muller's hometown.

5. What was eventually done with the two groups witnessing and helping with the gassing of prisoners in Chapter 2?
(a) They were killed and replaced.
(b) They were put together as a crematorium working party.
(c) They were further separated into three groups.
(d) They were caught joking about the process.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What happened to Filip and the others as they were driven past the town of Auschwitz with the corpses?

4. What was a Kapo?

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

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

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

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

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

6. What dream did Filip have the night he and the others finished the burial of the corpses in the pit?

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

8. What plan did Filip's bunk mate have in order to quench their thirst?

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

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

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