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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 the Family Camp react to the news that they would be gassed?
2. Where did the SS leader, Schwarzhuber, tell the Family Camp they would be going a few days before they were led to the crematorium?
3. What was Filip's friend, the last of seven from his hometown of Sered, planning to do at the time he learned of the plan to inform the Family Camp of their impending death?
4. Who was the doctor in charge of the Sonderkommando hospital in Birkenau?
5. Who took over the executions when a young mother threw her murdered child at Voss?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the male prisoners' main motives for wanting to visit the women's camp?
2. How did Voss decide to deal with the need to have the crematorium ready by 8 am the following morning for the Family Camp?
3. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?
4. How did Filip feel his life had changed for the better when he was moved to Birkenau?
5. What put Filip's mind to rest concerning Mietek being a Kapo at Birkenau?
6. What was "extermination through labor"?
7. In what ways did the prisoners of the Family Camp change their emotional state once inside the changing room?
8. Why were the prisoners of the Family Camp so confused as they stood in the crematorium facing certain death?
9. During the execution of a mother and her child, why did Voss' underling take over for him?
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
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 2
In the book, Muller states that Vacek is a "professional criminal". Considering the way in which he treats the prisoners (the truncheon beatings, "sport" and throwing the morning tea into a gulley), is Vacek more than just a "professional criminal"? How else can he be described, considering that he, too, is a prisoner at Auschwitz?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the characters of Mietek and Fischl.
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