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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. Where did the ambulances take the sick and injured who got off the train?
(a) To the gas chambers.
(b) To another train that returned them to their country.
(c) To the infirmary.
(d) To the camp barracks.

2. Of what was Dr. Lengyel accused when he was questioned by the S.S.?
(a) Hiding Jewish families in his hospital.
(b) Boycotting the use of German pharmeceuticals in his clinic.
(c) Providing free medical services to Gypsies.
(d) Distributing anti-Nazi propaganda.

3. Why did the elderly man give his potatoes to Olga rather than to the woman to whom he had promised them?
(a) He knew Olga from their life before the camp.
(b) Olga looked like she needed the food more than the other woman did.
(c) The other woman was not around.
(d) Olga was younger than the other woman.

4. Other than for eating, of what use were the twenty bowls issued to the prisoners in the barracks?
(a) Chamber pots.
(b) Digging latrines.
(c) Collecting rain water.
(d) Weapons during fights.

5. What was the handsome, blue-eyed man doing in Olga's barrack?
(a) He was repairing the bunks.
(b) He had sneaked in to see one of the women.
(c) He was hiding from the camp police.
(d) He was a doctor on his rounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name was given to the internee who was chosen as barrack chief?

2. What part of "Canada" reminded Olga of all the infants that had been murdered by the Germans?

3. What happened to the prisoners who drank stagnant water from the puddles?

4. Why were pregnancies sometimes hard to catch in the initial selection at the station?

5. What happened when a woman gave birth in the concentration camp?

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