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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. When the SS men assembled about 2,000 people to the crematorium yard in Chapter 3, what did one man lead the people to do?
(a) Pray.
(b) Run.
(c) Resist.
(d) Scream.

2. Who decided, with a plan to help, that the Family Camp must be warned at once about their impending doom?
(a) Wetzler.
(b) Muller.
(c) Schoen.
(d) Kaminski.

3. 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) Nothing.
(b) Praying aloud the same prayers.
(c) Protesting to the SS.
(d) Whispering to each other about an escape plan.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Where did the SS leader, Schwarzhuber, tell the Family Camp they would be going a few days before they were led to the crematorium?

4. Why were the prisoners of the Sonderkommando at first kept away from the last group of prisoners to be killed in Chapter 3?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. What was "extermination through labor"?

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

10. 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?

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