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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. Where did one of Filip's team find a hand grenade?
(a) In an urn at Auschwitz.
(b) In the new Birkenau crematoria.
(c) In Bunker 1.
(d) In the pocket of a dead Ukranian SS man.

2. In Chapter 3, when a crowd of 1,000 people undressed, what did they begin to do when they realized they would be killed?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Threw their clothing at the German soldiers.
(c) Cried and prayed silently.
(d) They began to dress again.

3. How long did Filip live in Block 11 in Auschwitz before being sent to Birkenau?
(a) A year.
(b) Fourteen months.
(c) Three years.
(d) Six months.

4. What was a "mussulman"?
(a) A prisoner who had lost the will to live.
(b) The kind of fish the SS men ate at dinner.
(c) A rank of officer.
(d) The prisoners who grew muscular from carrying heavy loads.

5. Where did the SS leader, Schwarzhuber, tell the Family Camp they would be going a few days before they were led to the crematorium?
(a) Theresienstadt.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Sered.
(d) Heydebreck.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Sonderkommando's doctor's wife try to follow him as he was being deported?

2. What plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?

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

4. Filip had one regret as he stood in the gas chamber, ready to die. What was it?

5. What did Filip encounter when he went to Crematorium 3 for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

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

9. What did Filip watch a captured young mother with her child do when the SS men ordered them to undress in Chapter 3?

10. In what ways did the prisoners of the Family Camp change their emotional state once inside the changing room?

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