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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. What did members of the Family Camp think was happening when, after being warned, there was no violence towards them after a few days?
(a) There was still danger waiting for them.
(b) They were needed to prove the SS were good people.
(c) The other prisoners just wanted to involve them in a revolt.
(d) The SS had changed their minds.

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

3. When the Sonderkommando members asked the Resistance in the camp to plan a mass escape, what were they told?
(a) There was too much fear.
(b) Wait for warmer weather.
(c) They agreed to it.
(d) They would soon be freed by the Russians.

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) Continued to beat the prisoners.
(c) Machine-gunned the last few to enter.
(d) Taped their mouths shut.

5. What did Filip encounter when he went to Crematorium 3 for the first time?
(a) Women's hair drying on the brick floor.
(b) Hair being made into wigs.
(c) Stray hairs blowing in the wind.
(d) Women's hair being shaved off their heads.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Roehrig, a block senior, transferred to a penal company?

2. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?

3. How many Red Army prisoners of war were left alive by January, 1945, out of the 13,000 taken?

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

5. What were SS men most likely to be bribed with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was "extermination through labor"?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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