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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. Who pretended to be a representative of the Foreign Ministry to a crowd of people about to be gassed to death?
(a) Kaminski.
(b) Schwarzhuber.
(c) Hossler.
(d) Voss.

2. What was a Volksdeutscher?
(a) A person born and bred in Germany.
(b) A follower of Hitler.
(c) An ethnic German.
(d) A believer in the German tradition.

3. What piece of evidence concerning the death camp did Filip obtain for the Resistance?
(a) The note about the Family Camp.
(b) Labels from Zyclon B gas tins.
(c) Ashes from the ovens.
(d) Women's hair.

4. After a while, how did Filip and other Sonderkommandos regard anybody arriving at the crematorium?
(a) With a glimmer of hope that someone would make it out alive.
(b) As a victim of their own doing.
(c) As though they were family.
(d) As doomed to die.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was "Canada" in the camp?

2. 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?

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

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. While Filip waited in the gas chamber, who did he learn had committed suicide?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the prisoners of the Family Camp so confused as they stood in the crematorium facing certain death?

2. What did Filip watch a captured young mother with her child do when the SS men ordered them to undress in Chapter 3?

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

4. 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?

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

6. How did Voss decide to deal with the need to have the crematorium ready by 8 am the following morning for the Family Camp?

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

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

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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