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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. Why were Filip and others made to stand among the crowd in Chapter 3 holding up letters of the alphabet?

2. What weaponry had Filip's group acquired as of the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. What happened to the people who attempted to escape the Polish ghettos?

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

5. What was Auschwitz fashion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did the ghetto in Theresienstadt really exist?

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

6. How did Voss decide to deal with the need to have the crematorium ready by 8 am the following morning for the Family Camp?

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

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

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

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

Based upon the deceits and cover-ups that the SS use in their daily interactions with inmates, is it all just a game being played by them? If so, do they enjoy it? Do any of the SS seem to care about the fate of the inmates? If so, which ones?

Essay Topic 2

In the book, Muller states that Vacek is a "professional criminal". Considering the way in which he treats the prisoners (the truncheon beatings, "sport" and throwing the morning tea into a gulley), is Vacek more than just a "professional criminal"? How else can he be described, considering that he, too, is a prisoner at Auschwitz?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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