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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 one of Vacek's commands to the lined-up prisoners in the yard of Block 11?
(a) "Caps off!"
(b) "Silence now!"
(c) "Attention!"
(d) "Forward march!"

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

3. What genre does the story fall into?
(a) Biography.
(b) Novel.
(c) Mystery.
(d) Memoir.

4. What did the statement, "he has gone to the wire" refer to?
(a) The birds sitting on the wire fences.
(b) A prisoner who escapes past the wired fence.
(c) A prisoner who was killed by running into the electrified fence.
(d) Someone who dared to climb the barbed-wire fence and fell.

5. What was the only Polish word that Aumeier learned in order to make himself understood by his victims?
(a) Szybko (faster).
(b) Ide (go).
(c) Kota (cat).
(d) Psa (dog).

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Filip ordered to do to the dead bodies in the cremation room?

3. What was the quarrel between Mietek and Fischl over?

4. Where did Stark bring Maurice and Filip after they were caught stealing tea?

5. Before the SS men poured the deadly gas crystals into the gas chamber, what did they do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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