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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 an SS-Oberaufseherin?

2. How long did Filip live in Block 11 in Auschwitz before being sent to Birkenau?

3. Who pretended to be a representative of the Foreign Ministry to a crowd of people about to be gassed to death?

4. When one of the Sonderkommandos told a woman he recognized that she was about to be gassed to death, what did she do?

5. What prisoner, experienced in organizing conspiracies, was transferred back to Auschwitz?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

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

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

4. During the execution of a mother and her child, why did Voss' underling take over for him?

5. How was the rumor that the Family Camp stood under the protection of the International Red Cross dispelled?

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. How did Filip manage to speak to prisoners awaiting execution?

8. Why were the prisoners of the Family Camp so confused as they stood in the crematorium facing certain death?

9. What did Filip watch a captured young mother with her child do when the SS men ordered them to undress in Chapter 3?

10. What is ironic and sad about the scene during which there was a party for Gorges in the crematorium?

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

What do you think Filip Muller's reasons are for writing this book? How might his reasons for writing the book relate to his suicide attempt in the gas chamber? Do you believe those reasons to be valid? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

The SS men have a particular way of ensuring that prisoners set for extermination are not aware of what is about to happen to them.

How do the Germans achieve this ruse?

Why do the prisoners believe them?

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