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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. Who was SS-Untersturmfuhrer Max Grabner?
(a) Master of the main camp.
(b) Chief of the Gestapo's political department.
(c) Chief of the crematorium operations.
(d) Top sergeant of the SS.

2. What did Filip and the others throw on top of the mountain of bodies in the pit?
(a) The clothes of the dead.
(b) Chlorinated lime.
(c) Blankets.
(d) Dirty snow.

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

4. What was an Unterscharfuhrer?
(a) Block clerk.
(b) General.
(c) Sergeant.
(d) Corporal.

5. What happened to the women in Block 10 at Auschwitz?
(a) They were left to die.
(b) They were treated fairly well.
(c) They were sterilized.
(d) They were raped.

Short Answer Questions

1. When hundred of prisoners were beaten and ordered to undress in the yard, what did Fischl do?

2. What gave Filip some solace as his father's remains were burned in the crematorium?

3. What was Sonderbehandlung?

4. What rank was Hauptsternfuhrer Hans Aumeier?

5. What did a Block Senior receive as a reward for making prisoners keep the block clean?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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