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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 happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?
(a) Many of them made it to freedom.
(b) They were caught by police dogs and executed.
(c) They were often forgetten and starved to death.
(d) They were murdered in their hiding places.

2. When half of the crowd at the end of Chapter 3 were behind the door of the crematorium, what was the other half, still dressed, doing?
(a) Praying aloud the same prayers.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Protesting to the SS.
(d) Whispering to each other about an escape plan.

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

4. While Filip waited in the gas chamber, who did he learn had committed suicide?
(a) Daniel Ostbaum.
(b) Fredi Hirsch.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Langer.

5. How did the Sonderkommando's doctor's wife try to follow him as he was being deported?
(a) She clung to his legs and was dragged along.
(b) She bribed an SS man.
(c) She sewed a Star of David onto her coat.
(d) She joined a crowd marked with the Star of David.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prisoner, experienced in organizing conspiracies, was transferred back to Auschwitz?

2. Why were the people in the Family Camp asked to write letters to family and friends days before their extermination?

3. What was "Canada" in the camp?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

2. What was "extermination through labor"?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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