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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. What did Filip and the others throw on top of the mountain of bodies in the pit?

2. What was Vacek's first victim's handicap?

3. What did the word "organize" mean in the camp's slang?

4. What did Vacek do to the prisoner who was mumbling next to Muller?

5. What was a blockfuhrer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Vacek do when the men got in line behind the wooden tea vats?

2. What were the newly arrived prisoners standing outside the crematorium told by the SS men in order to get them to undress calmly?

3. Describe the cell that Filip and the others were taken to after they had put the corpses into the pit.

4. What did Filip wonder about Stark as he thought of the man's actions at the camp?

5. Why were Filip and the others terrified as Aumeier and Grabner went from cell to cell in Block 11?

6. What caught Filip's attention as he gulped down the tea from the vat with Maurice?

7. How did Filip's health deteriorate at the time he was given the job of stripping dead bodies of their clothes?

8. What were the Kapo's incentives to victimize some of the men at the morning exercise?

9. When Filip and the others were ordered to search and separate the victim's clothing in Chapter 2, how were the items sorted?

10. What were Filip's thoughts after he and Maurice were caught drinking tea and awaited punishment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The SS men have a particular way of ensuring that prisoners set for extermination are not aware of what is about to happen to them.

How do the Germans achieve this ruse?

Why do the prisoners believe them?

Essay Topic 2

The Family Camp prisoners are told more than once that their death is imminent; set for that night.

Part 1 - Why do those inmates end up not believing what they are told?

Part 2 - What methods have the Nazis used in order to gain the trust of the inmates of the Family Camp?

Part 3 - What makes the Nazis betray those inmates in the end?

Essay Topic 3

What do you think Filip Muller's reasons are for writing this book? How might his reasons for writing the book relate to his suicide attempt in the gas chamber? Do you believe those reasons to be valid? Why or why not?

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