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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. Why was the technique thought up by the Kommandofuhrers and known as "express work" originally used?
(a) To cut down on the men needed for the work.
(b) To save coke.
(c) To burn bodies more quickly.
(d) It was done on the fastest train running.

2. Who pretended to be a representative of the Foreign Ministry to a crowd of people about to be gassed to death?
(a) Hossler.
(b) Schwarzhuber.
(c) Kaminski.
(d) Voss.

3. What did the so-called representative of the Foreign Ministry tell the crowd they could not leave without?
(a) A haircut.
(b) A certificate of disinfection.
(c) A letter of introduction.
(d) Their clean clothing.

4. What did almost every prisoner in the Sonderkommando spend a great deal of time doing?
(a) Eating.
(b) Beating others.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Organizing.

5. Where was it most difficult for a prisoner to go?
(a) Ouside.
(b) The crematorium.
(c) The women's camp.
(d) The black wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the girls in the gas chamber do to Filip?

2. Why were the prisoners of the Sonderkommando at first kept away from the last group of prisoners to be killed in Chapter 3?

3. What were Schwarzhuber and Dr. Mangele doing when Filip saw them through the open door of the gas chamber?

4. Where did one of Filip's team find a hand grenade?

5. What happened to the Sonderkommando who told a woman in the crowd they were all to be exterminated?

Short Essay Questions

1. A few radicals in the camp, wanting to strike off on their on in an escape plan, renewed their violent criticism towards the leaders of the Resistance. Why?

2. What were the male prisoners' main motives for wanting to visit the women's camp?

3. Why did the members of the Sonderkommando feel the time had come to convince the other prisoners in the camp to attempt a mass escape in February, 1944?

4. What put Filip's mind to rest concerning Mietek being a Kapo at Birkenau?

5. When Filip was sent to Birkenau to deliver chlorinated lime, he spoke with two grammar school friends who were burning decomposing corpses. Why did the SS men come and separate them?

6. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

7. How did Filip manage to speak to prisoners awaiting execution?

8. Why were the prisoners of the Family Camp so confused as they stood in the crematorium facing certain death?

9. What was "extermination through labor"?

10. Why did the SS decide not to shoot the first load of people from the Family Camp who were in the changing room?

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