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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 a Kapo?

2. Who was SS-Untersturmfuhrer Max Grabner?

3. What was one of Vacek's commands to the lined-up prisoners in the yard of Block 11?

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

5. How long did it take a prisoner's body to burn in the oven?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the midday lunch the men were given in Chapter 1.

3. Besides the gas chamber, what other means of mass murder were used at Auschwitz?

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

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

6. What plan did Filip's bunk mate have in order to quench their thirst?

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

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

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

10. When Filip became a crematorium worker, what did he realize was his only chance of staying alive?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Consider the people who survived those years in the concentration camps as explained in the book.

Part 1 - Why did some survive while others perished?

Part 2 - What did the survivors have that some did not?

Part 3 - Did luck play a role in surviving Auschwitz?

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