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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 a female prisoner who was slowly stripping off her clothes do?
(a) Ripped her skin with her fingernails.
(b) Punched Quackernack in the groin.
(c) Foamed at her mouth in madness.
(d) Slammed her high heel into Quackernack's forehead.

2. What were SS men most likely to be bribed with?
(a) Gold, diamonds and deutsche marks.
(b) Gold, dollars and diamonds.
(c) Sex, gold and dollars.
(d) Drugs, diamonds and dollars.

3. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?
(a) Poland.
(b) Back to Germany.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) England.

4. Who did the inmates of Birkenau think the Family Camp was under the protection of?
(a) The League of Nations.
(b) The International Red Cross.
(c) The Polish government.
(d) The media.

5. What did the girls in the gas chamber do to Filip?
(a) Thanked him for being there.
(b) Asked for his help.
(c) Pushed him out the door.
(d) Hugged him tightly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did Filip notice in the front rank of the Sonderkommando group he was in at Birkenau?

3. What drew Filip near the people of the Family Camp as they were in the changing room?

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

5. How long did Filip live in Block 11 in Auschwitz before being sent to Birkenau?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 compeled Filip to enter the gas chamber with the others?

4. What was "extermination through labor"?

5. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

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

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

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

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

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