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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) Switzerland.
(b) Poland.
(c) Back to Germany.
(d) England.

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

3. What did the girls in the gas chamber do to Filip?
(a) Thanked him for being there.
(b) Hugged him tightly.
(c) Asked for his help.
(d) Pushed him out the door.

4. What did Johann Gorges' nickname, Moische Borak, mean?
(a) Stonewall faced.
(b) Ugly man.
(c) Evil one.
(d) Beetroot face.

5. 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) With laughter.
(d) In different ways.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drew Filip near the people of the Family Camp as they were in the changing room?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What compeled Filip to enter the gas chamber with the others?

3. What was "extermination through labor"?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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