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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters X through XVI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Olga and her fellow prisoners use as a mop?
(a) The bottom portion of a dress, which had been cut off.
(b) The sleeves of their own dresses.
(c) A handful of dirty rags pulled from the garbage pile.
(d) Their socks.

2. How did the children in the camp speak about the goings-on of the camp?
(a) Quietly and anxiously.
(b) They did not speak about it.
(c) Tearfully and sometimes hysterically.
(d) Calmly and realistically.

3. One day in June of 1944, where did Irma Griese send the 315 women who were "selected"?
(a) Out of the camp on a work detail.
(b) Into the woods to be shot.
(c) Into a washroom, where they were locked in.
(d) Directly to the crematory.

4. What did L. say that he and Olga must both do after the war?
(a) Reunite and get to know each other outside of war.
(b) See to it that the Nazis were punished for their crimes.
(c) Write down everything they had seen so that the world would know the truth.
(d) Search for their family members.

5. How did Olga become a "rich woman" in the camp?
(a) She was given her own blanket, which she shared with her bedmates.
(b) She was given extra food by one of the guards.
(c) She found friends who comforted her.
(d) She made a toothbrush, a handkerchief, and a wooden knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Olga get in the line to have her hair shaved?

2. What did Olga have to give to the blocova in order to keep her escape from the gas chamber a secret?

3. Why did the prisoners eat the soup even though it was repulsive to them?

4. What was the "most tragic danger" for the sick in the camp?

5. What about the blue-eyed man caught Olga's attention?

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