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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. When one of the Sonderkommandos told a woman he recognized that she was about to be gassed to death, what did she do?
2. What did a female prisoner who was slowly stripping off her clothes do?
3. When the Sonderkommando members asked the Resistance in the camp to plan a mass escape, what were they told?
4. What was "Canada" in the camp?
5. How did Filip know Alfred Wetzler?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
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. 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?
4. What were the male prisoners' main motives for wanting to visit the women's camp?
5. What was "extermination through labor"?
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. Why were the prisoners of the Family Camp so confused as they stood in the crematorium facing certain death?
8. What led the SS to believe that Kapo Kaminski was thoroughly competent to carry out his duties?
9. Filip considered Dr. Pach to have exemplary qualities of humanity. Why?
10. A few radicals in the camp, wanting to strike off on their on in an escape plan, renewed their violent criticism towards the leaders of the Resistance. Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe at least two ironic moments in Chapter 2. Did irony add or take away from this story? Explain your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the ways in which Fischl is the leader of the group Filip is in. Determine whether or not he is a fair leader. What characteristics make him fair or unfair?
Essay Topic 3
What brings the members of the Sonderkommando to decide to inform one of the nightly transports of Polish Jews that they are about to be murdered? How does their plan work out? Will they try it again? Explain why or why not.
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