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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 was compulsory on a Sunday afternoon?
2. How long did it take a prisoner's body to burn in the oven?
3. Who was Schlage?
4. When hundred of prisoners were beaten and ordered to undress in the yard, what did Fischl do?
5. What happened to the women in Block 10 at Auschwitz?
Short Essay Questions
1. What caught Filip's attention as he gulped down the tea from the vat with Maurice?
2. What dream did Filip have the night he and the others finished the burial of the corpses in the pit?
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 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. When Filip and the others were ordered to search and separate the victim's clothing in Chapter 2, how were the items sorted?
7. Besides the gas chamber, what other means of mass murder were used at Auschwitz?
8. Whose dead body did Filip realize he was taking cheese and matches from in the crematorium in Chapter 2?
9. What new procedure did Filip witness being tried out for the first time in Chapter 2?
10. As Filip stood against the wall of the crematorium and contemplated the fate of the hundreds of new prisoners being brought through the gates, what did he ask himself?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
During the morning drill of "Caps on! Caps off!", Vacek has the men repeat the drill dozens of times. What is the meaning behind this seemingly senseless drill for Vacek? Explain why Vacek has the men continually repeat the drill.
Essay Topic 2
What brings the members of the Sonderkommando to decide to inform one of the nightly transports of Polish Jews that they are about to be murdered? How does their plan work out? Will they try it again? Explain why or why not.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the characters of Mietek and Fischl.
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