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

2. What were Schwarzhuber and Dr. Mangele doing when Filip saw them through the open door of the gas chamber?

3. In Chapter 3, when a crowd of 1,000 people undressed, what did they begin to do when they realized they would be killed?

4. How did the SS treat the members of the Family Camp as they were entering the crematorium yard?

5. What plan did the Sonderkommandos devise to save themselves?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. What is ironic and sad about the scene during which there was a party for Gorges in the crematorium?

6. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

7. Why did the SS decide not to shoot the first load of people from the Family Camp who were in the changing room?

8. Why were the prisoners of the Family Camp so confused as they stood in the crematorium facing certain death?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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