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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. Who told Filip "..it is vital that you should see everything, experience everything, go through everything and consciously record everything in your mind"?

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

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. In Chapter 3, when a crowd of 1,000 people undressed, what did they begin to do when they realized they would be killed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What problems did the SS men who accepted bribes organized by prisoners have?

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

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

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

8. What was "extermination through labor"?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the characters of Mietek and Fischl.

Essay Topic 2

Based upon the deceits and cover-ups that the SS use in their daily interactions with inmates, is it all just a game being played by them? If so, do they enjoy it? Do any of the SS seem to care about the fate of the inmates? If so, which ones?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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