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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who did the SS men believe to be responsible for the fire in the crematorium's chimney?
2. What rank was Hauptsternfuhrer Hans Aumeier?
3. Where were Filip and Maurice taken after being caught at the tea vats?
4. Who was the dead girl that Filip had to undress from his hometown?
5. How many times had the prisoners already repeated Vacek's same command at the beginning of Chapter 1?
Short Essay Questions
1. What new procedure did Filip witness being tried out for the first time in Chapter 2?
2. Why did the lawyer standing next to Muller begin to complain?
3. What were the newly arrived prisoners standing outside the crematorium told by the SS men in order to get them to undress calmly?
4. What did Vacek do when the men got in line behind the wooden tea vats?
5. What dream did Filip have the night he and the others finished the burial of the corpses in the pit?
6. How did Vacek come to be a block clerk at Auschwitz?
7. Describe the cell that Filip and the others were taken to after they had put the corpses into the pit.
8. What was "sport" at Auschwitz?
9. When Filip became a crematorium worker, what did he realize was his only chance of staying alive?
10. Describe the midday lunch the men were given in Chapter 1.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the ways in which Fischl is the leader of the group Filip is in. Determine whether or not he is a fair leader. What characteristics make him fair or unfair?
Essay Topic 2
In the book, Muller states that Vacek is a "professional criminal". Considering the way in which he treats the prisoners (the truncheon beatings, "sport" and throwing the morning tea into a gulley), is Vacek more than just a "professional criminal"? How else can he be described, considering that he, too, is a prisoner at Auschwitz?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast SS men Voss and Moll as people in charge of the crematoria and the Sonderkommando.
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