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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 some of the Family Camp prisoners shout as they awaited death in the crematorium?
(a) "End the war!"
(b) "You lied to us!"
(c) "We want to live!"
(d) "What is happening?"

2. Who was the doctor in charge of the Sonderkommando hospital in Birkenau?
(a) Dr. Daniel Obstbaum.
(b) Dr. Jacques Pach.
(c) Dr. Jean Langer.
(d) Dr. Serge.

3. Why was Roehrig, a block senior, transferred to a penal company?
(a) He would not have his head shaved.
(b) He tried to help some Family Camp members escape.
(c) He stole a gold chain.
(d) He refused to use a truncheon on prisoners.

4. How did patients who were brought to Birkenau from mental hospitals react to being told to undress before their execution?
(a) With laughter.
(b) In different ways.
(c) They resisted fiercely.
(d) With screams.

5. 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?
(a) Scream.
(b) Pray.
(c) Run.
(d) Resist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were Filip and others made to stand among the crowd in Chapter 3 holding up letters of the alphabet?

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?

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

4. Who was called the "Angel of Death" by the men in the Sonderkommando?

5. What did the girl, Yana, tell Filip to give to her boyfriend after she was dead?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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 compeled Filip to enter the gas chamber with the others?

8. What problems did the SS men who accepted bribes organized by prisoners have?

9. 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?

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

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