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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 was Filip's friend, the last of seven from his hometown of Sered, planning to do at the time he learned of the plan to inform the Family Camp of their impending death?
(a) Escape.
(b) Organize some gold.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Bribe an officer.

2. What plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?
(a) Inform the next Polish transport of their imminent death.
(b) Escape in the middle of the night.
(c) Build an underground tunnel.
(d) Bribe every SS man that they knew would help them out.

3. Why were the people in the Family Camp asked to write letters to family and friends days before their extermination?
(a) So officials could read them all first.
(b) To keep the prisoners busy.
(c) So handwriting could be examined.
(d) To make it seem as though all was fine.

4. How did Filip know Alfred Wetzler?
(a) From school.
(b) From the Jewish ghetto.
(c) From Auschwitz.
(d) From the crematorium.

5. Why was the technique thought up by the Kommandofuhrers and known as "express work" originally used?
(a) It was done on the fastest train running.
(b) To cut down on the men needed for the work.
(c) To burn bodies more quickly.
(d) To save coke.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, when a crowd of 1,000 people undressed, what did they begin to do when they realized they would be killed?

2. How was the crowd treated by the "representative of the Foreign Ministry"?

3. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?

4. Who decided, with a plan to help, that the Family Camp must be warned at once about their impending doom?

5. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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. 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?

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

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

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

7. What compeled Filip to enter the gas chamber with the others?

8. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

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

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

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