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

2. What was a bum-boy?
(a) A prisoner who lost the will to live.
(b) Someone who served Kapos and block seniors.
(c) A bookkeeper.
(d) A Polish prisoner.

3. How long did Filip live in Block 11 in Auschwitz before being sent to Birkenau?
(a) Six months.
(b) A year.
(c) Three years.
(d) Fourteen months.

4. Filip had one regret as he stood in the gas chamber, ready to die. What was it?
(a) He did not write a will.
(b) He did not help one person to get out alive.
(c) He did not have the hand grenades.
(d) He forgot to say goodbye to the others.

5. What did the term "selection" mean at Birkenau and other camps?
(a) Being sent to an isolation cell.
(b) Chosen for a special job.
(c) Advance in rank.
(d) Extermination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Auschwitz fashion?

2. Why was the technique thought up by the Kommandofuhrers and known as "express work" originally used?

3. 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?

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

5. What happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

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

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

5. 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?

6. What led the SS to believe that Kapo Kaminski was thoroughly competent to carry out his duties?

7. What was "extermination through labor"?

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

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

10. How did Filip and others come to realize that members of Birkenau's Sonderkommando who were taken to Lublin had been murdered?

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