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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 SS men give Filip and the others before they boarded the truck holding the dead?

2. When hundred of prisoners were beaten and ordered to undress in the yard, what did Fischl do?

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

4. Before the SS men poured the deadly gas crystals into the gas chamber, what did they do?

5. Who was the dead girl that Filip had to undress from his hometown?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What new procedure did Filip witness being tried out for the first time in Chapter 2?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the escape plans of the Resistance in the general camp prison population differ from the plans of the Sonderkommando group? What are the reasons for the two groups having differing opinions as to when they should attempt an escape? Why do they differ?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The prisoners in the Family Camp refuse to defend themselves when they twice learn that they will be gassed.

1) Why would these people not want to fight for their lives if they knew they were going to die anyway?

2) Explain the thinking amongst the people in the camp.

3) Include some history as to what brought them to this point.

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