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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 was a Volksdeutscher?
2. Who did the inmates of Birkenau think the Family Camp was under the protection of?
3. What was a "mussulman"?
4. Where was it most difficult for a prisoner to go?
5. What did Johann Gorges' nickname, Moische Borak, mean?
Short Essay Questions
1. What problems did the SS men who accepted bribes organized by prisoners have?
2. How did Filip and others come to realize that members of Birkenau's Sonderkommando who were taken to Lublin had been murdered?
3. 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?
4. What is ironic and sad about the scene during which there was a party for Gorges in the crematorium?
5. What were the male prisoners' main motives for wanting to visit the women's camp?
6. 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?
7. How did Filip feel his life had changed for the better when he was moved to Birkenau?
8. What did Filip watch a captured young mother with her child do when the SS men ordered them to undress in Chapter 3?
9. Compare Filip's feelings during his work in the crematorium with his return to the prison camp.
10. How is it that Quackernack came to be attacked by the woman with her high heel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Family Camp prisoners are told more than once that their death is imminent; set for that night.
Part 1 - Why do those inmates end up not believing what they are told?
Part 2 - What methods have the Nazis used in order to gain the trust of the inmates of the Family Camp?
Part 3 - What makes the Nazis betray those inmates in the end?
Essay Topic 2
The SS men have a particular way of ensuring that prisoners set for extermination are not aware of what is about to happen to them.
How do the Germans achieve this ruse?
Why do the prisoners believe them?
Essay Topic 3
Compare the Jewish ghetto of Theresienstadt with the Family Camp at Birkenau. Which is a more habitable place in which to live?
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