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

2. What did the SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?
(a) A treasured cookie.
(b) Orders to be still.
(c) Lashing with a whip.
(d) Bread rations.

3. What did the author overhear the prisoner next to him saying in Chapter 1?
(a) Curses at the Germans.
(b) Prayers to God to save him.
(c) Nonsensical mumbling.
(d) Mumbles of disbelief at the happenings.

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 gave Filip some solace as his father's remains were burned in the crematorium?
(a) His father has gone to a better place.
(b) He knew that he had helped him all he could.
(c) His father did not suffer.
(d) A teammate recited Kaddish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the prisoners who were forced to participate in the preparations for the exterminations separated into two groups at first?

2. Who was SS-Untersturmfuhrer Max Grabner?

3. What was the rank of a Rottenfuhrer?

4. Why did a prisoner approach Schlage as Schlage looked over the ranks of men?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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