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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 drew Filip near the people of the Family Camp as they were in the changing room?

2. Why was Filip sent to Birkenau in October of 1942?

3. While Filip waited in the gas chamber, who did he learn had committed suicide?

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

5. What did the SS threaten the prisoners of the Family Camp with after a few of them rushed toward the doors and were killed?

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

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

4. 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?

5. What was "extermination through labor"?

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

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

8. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

9. What were the male prisoners' main motives for wanting to visit the women's camp?

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

During the morning drill of "Caps on! Caps off!", Vacek has the men repeat the drill dozens of times. What is the meaning behind this seemingly senseless drill for Vacek? Explain why Vacek has the men continually repeat the drill.

Essay Topic 3

Consider the people who survived those years in the concentration camps as explained in the book.

Part 1 - Why did some survive while others perished?

Part 2 - What did the survivors have that some did not?

Part 3 - Did luck play a role in surviving Auschwitz?

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