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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. How did prisoners have to do their weekly shaving?

2. What was eventually done with the two groups witnessing and helping with the gassing of prisoners in Chapter 2?

3. How many times had the prisoners already repeated Vacek's same command at the beginning of Chapter 1?

4. What did the author overhear the prisoner next to him saying in Chapter 1?

5. From what point of view is the story told?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was known as Auschwitz justice as it concerned lice?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. Whose dead body did Filip realize he was taking cheese and matches from in the crematorium in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 2

Part 1 - What are the reactions to the lawyer from Sered complaining to Schlage?

Part 2 - Explain the reactions and possible feelings amongst the prisoners.

Part 3 - Delve into how Schlage reacts to the man.

Part 4 - Express Vacek's feelings when Schlage orders him to kill the man.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast SS men Voss and Moll as people in charge of the crematoria and the Sonderkommando.

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