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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 Filip know Alfred Wetzler?

2. Where did one of Filip's team find a hand grenade?

3. Where did the SS man who was posing as someone from the Foreign Ministry tell the people they were going?

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. When half of the crowd at the end of Chapter 3 were behind the door of the crematorium, what was the other half, still dressed, doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

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

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

5. 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?

6. Compare Filip's feelings during his work in the crematorium with his return to the prison camp.

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

8. Filip considered Dr. Pach to have exemplary qualities of humanity. Why?

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

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

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

Compare and contrast the characters of Mietek and Fischl.

Essay Topic 3

Describe Filip's mixed feelings about being a helpless onlooker and reluctant partner in the crimes against the prisoners of Birkenau.

Give concrete examples from the book to support your descriptions.

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