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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 were the prisoners of the Sonderkommando at first kept away from the last group of prisoners to be killed in Chapter 3?
(a) To ensure the safety of the prisoners.
(b) So they would not have a chance to speak with them.
(c) The sight was too gruesome.
(d) There were not enough people to warrant their involvement.

2. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?
(a) To help with the burning of corpses.
(b) To move up in the ranks of his job.
(c) To bring chlorinated lime for the corpses.
(d) To join the Sonderkommando there.

3. What did the girl, Yana, tell Filip to give to her boyfriend after she was dead?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her gold chain.
(c) A hug goodbye.
(d) A ring.

4. What did the SS men do as the prisoners from the Family Camp began to sing as they were pushed towards the gas chambers?
(a) Began to sing with them.
(b) Taped their mouths shut.
(c) Machine-gunned the last few to enter.
(d) Continued to beat the prisoners.

5. What were Schwarzhuber and Dr. Mangele doing when Filip saw them through the open door of the gas chamber?
(a) Looking curiously inside.
(b) Aiming their guns at people.
(c) Looking sadly at the people.
(d) Cursing at the prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Filip considered what his life would be like if he survived the war, he thought of running into the FS men. Who were they?

2. When the SS men assembled about 2,000 people to the crematorium yard in Chapter 3, what did one man lead the people to do?

3. How did Filip know Alfred Wetzler?

4. What was a bum-boy?

5. What happened to the gold teeth pulled from the mouths of those gassed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was "extermination through labor"?

2. 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?

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

4. How did Filip and others come to realize that members of Birkenau's Sonderkommando who were taken to Lublin had been murdered?

5. How did Filip feel his life had changed for the better when he was moved to Birkenau?

6. What is ironic and sad about the scene during which there was a party for Gorges in the crematorium?

7. How is it that Quackernack came to be attacked by the woman with her high heel?

8. Compare Filip's feelings during his work in the crematorium with his return to the prison camp.

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

10. Filip considered Dr. Pach to have exemplary qualities of humanity. Why?

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