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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. Where was it most difficult for a prisoner to go?
(a) The crematorium.
(b) The black wall.
(c) The women's camp.
(d) Ouside.

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

3. 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 joined a crowd marked with the Star of David.
(c) She sewed a Star of David onto her coat.
(d) She bribed an SS man.

4. While Filip was in the gas chamber, who did he look up to find surrounding him?
(a) Vicious dogs.
(b) His fellow Sonderkommandos.
(c) A group of people from the Family Camp.
(d) Some SS men.

5. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?
(a) Kurschuss.
(b) Dajan.
(c) Mietek.
(d) Gorges.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Sonderkommando members asked the Resistance in the camp to plan a mass escape, what were they told?

2. What did Filip encounter when he went to Crematorium 3 for the first time?

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

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

5. What did members of the Family Camp think was happening when, after being warned, there was no violence towards them after a few days?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

7. 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?

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

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

10. 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?

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