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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 Filip and others made to stand among the crowd in Chapter 3 holding up letters of the alphabet?
(a) To make them believe they would be waiting for the train according to their name.
(b) To call each group of prisoners into the crematorium by last name.
(c) To identify the bodies after the gassing.
(d) So the SS would know who each person was according to their name.

2. Who told Filip "..it is vital that you should see everything, experience everything, go through everything and consciously record everything in your mind"?
(a) Kaminski.
(b) Yana.
(c) Sasha.
(d) Mengele.

3. Where did the majority of the people in the Family Camp come from?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Theresienstadt.

4. How many Red Army prisoners of war were left alive by January, 1945, out of the 13,000 taken?
(a) 1,300.
(b) 100.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 1,000.

5. Who did Filip notice in the front rank of the Sonderkommando group he was in at Birkenau?
(a) Mietek.
(b) Fischl.
(c) Bruck.
(d) Vicek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the doctor in charge of the Sonderkommando hospital in Birkenau?

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

4. When half of the crowd at the end of Chapter 3 were behind the door of the crematorium, what was the other half, still dressed, doing?

5. While Filip waited in the gas chamber, who did he learn had committed suicide?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the rumor that the Family Camp stood under the protection of the International Red Cross dispelled?

2. How did Voss decide to deal with the need to have the crematorium ready by 8 am the following morning for the Family Camp?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. During the execution of a mother and her child, why did Voss' underling take over for him?

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