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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. Where did the SS leader, Schwarzhuber, tell the Family Camp they would be going a few days before they were led to the crematorium?

2. What did the so-called representative of the Foreign Ministry tell the crowd they could not leave without?

3. What was "Canada" in the camp?

4. What piece of evidence concerning the death camp did Filip obtain for the Resistance?

5. What happened to the gold teeth pulled from the mouths of those gassed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the members of the Sonderkommando feel the time had come to convince the other prisoners in the camp to attempt a mass escape in February, 1944?

3. What led the SS to believe that Kapo Kaminski was thoroughly competent to carry out his duties?

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

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

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

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

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. What was "extermination through labor"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

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

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