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

2. What was a "mussulman"?
(a) A rank of officer.
(b) The prisoners who grew muscular from carrying heavy loads.
(c) The kind of fish the SS men ate at dinner.
(d) A prisoner who had lost the will to live.

3. What did members of the Family Camp think was happening when, after being warned, there was no violence towards them after a few days?
(a) There was still danger waiting for them.
(b) They were needed to prove the SS were good people.
(c) The SS had changed their minds.
(d) The other prisoners just wanted to involve them in a revolt.

4. When one of the Sonderkommandos told a woman he recognized that she was about to be gassed to death, what did she do?
(a) Cried silently.
(b) Calmly agreed to spread the word.
(c) Disfigured herself with her nails and foamed at the mouth.
(d) Committed suicide.

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?
(a) Bribe an officer.
(b) Organize some gold.
(c) Escape.
(d) Commit suicide.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Johann Gorges' nickname, Moische Borak, mean?

3. When the Nazis invaded Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, where were the Jews first removed from?

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

5. Why was Serge so angry at Dr. Pach for giving medical treatment to prisoners?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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 was "extermination through labor"?

7. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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