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

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

3. How many Red Army prisoners of war were left alive by January, 1945, out of the 13,000 taken?
(a) 100.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 1,300.

4. In Chapter 3, when a crowd of 1,000 people undressed, what did they begin to do when they realized they would be killed?
(a) Nothing.
(b) They began to dress again.
(c) Cried and prayed silently.
(d) Threw their clothing at the German soldiers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the SS treat the members of the Family Camp as they were entering the crematorium yard?

2. What was an SS-Oberaufseherin?

3. How did the Family Camp react to the news that they would be gassed?

4. Why was Roehrig, a block senior, transferred to a penal company?

5. What did the girl, Yana, tell Filip to give to her boyfriend after she was dead?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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. What problems did the SS men who accepted bribes organized by prisoners have?

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

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

9. How is it that Quackernack came to be attacked by the woman with her high heel?

10. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

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