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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 the author overhear the prisoner next to him saying in Chapter 1?

2. What size was the cell that Filip and the others were brought to at the end of their eventful day in Chapter 2?

3. What was the only Polish word that Aumeier learned in order to make himself understood by his victims?

4. What rank was Hauptsternfuhrer Hans Aumeier?

5. What was Sonderbehandlung?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Why did the lawyer standing next to Muller begin to complain?

4. What dream did Filip have the night he and the others finished the burial of the corpses in the pit?

5. How did Vacek come to be a block clerk at Auschwitz?

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

7. What did the lawyer in Chapter 1 do that cost him his life?

8. What was "sport" at Auschwitz?

9. Explain the orders Vacek gave to the prisoners in the yard of Block 11.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe at least two ironic moments in Chapter 2. Did irony add or take away from this story? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Compare the Jewish ghetto of Theresienstadt with the Family Camp at Birkenau. Which is a more habitable place in which to live?

Essay Topic 3

The men in Fischl's group are isolated from the rest of the camp.

1) Explain the Germans' reasoning for this.

2) Describe Filip's realization of this reason.

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