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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 patients who were brought to Birkenau from mental hospitals react to being told to undress before their execution?

2. How did the Family Camp react to the news that they would be gassed?

3. What did Filip encounter when he went to Crematorium 3 for the first time?

4. Where did the SS leader, Schwarzhuber, tell the Family Camp they would be going a few days before they were led to the crematorium?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. How is it that Quackernack came to be attacked by the woman with her high heel?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1 - What are the reactions to the lawyer from Sered complaining to Schlage?

Part 2 - Explain the reactions and possible feelings amongst the prisoners.

Part 3 - Delve into how Schlage reacts to the man.

Part 4 - Express Vacek's feelings when Schlage orders him to kill the man.

Essay Topic 2

The Germans do not want the prisoners to contract typhus, which is evident by their warnings and "delousing" sessions. Why, then, aren't prisoners given soap, towels or water on a regular basis for showering? Explain the discrepancy between the prisoners' living conditions and the German's need for them to avoid lice.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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