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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 members of the Family Camp think was happening when, after being warned, there was no violence towards them after a few days?

2. What happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?

3. What did Filip encounter when he went to Crematorium 3 for the first time?

4. Who decided, with a plan to help, that the Family Camp must be warned at once about their impending doom?

5. How did the SS treat the members of the Family Camp as they were entering the crematorium yard?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways did the prisoners of the Family Camp change their emotional state once inside the changing room?

2. How did Filip and others come to realize that members of Birkenau's Sonderkommando who were taken to Lublin had been murdered?

3. Why did the SS decide not to shoot the first load of people from the Family Camp who were in the changing room?

4. What put Filip's mind to rest concerning Mietek being a Kapo at Birkenau?

5. How did Filip feel his life had changed for the better when he was moved to Birkenau?

6. A few radicals in the camp, wanting to strike off on their on in an escape plan, renewed their violent criticism towards the leaders of the Resistance. Why?

7. What compeled Filip to enter the gas chamber with the others?

8. When Filip was sent to Birkenau to deliver chlorinated lime, he spoke with two grammar school friends who were burning decomposing corpses. Why did the SS men come and separate them?

9. How is it that Quackernack came to be attacked by the woman with her high heel?

10. Filip considered Dr. Pach to have exemplary qualities of humanity. Why?

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 Germans do not want the prisoners to contract typhus, which is evident by their warnings and "delousing" sessions. Why, then, aren't prisoners given soap, towels or water on a regular basis for showering? Explain the discrepancy between the prisoners' living conditions and the German's need for them to avoid lice.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the characters of Mietek and Fischl.

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