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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters V through IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What response did the old inmate give Olga when she asked about the red brick building with the chimney?
(a) He told her that she did not want to know the truth.
(b) He smiled and told her that she would find out soon enough.
(c) He said it was the camp bakery.
(d) He said it was an ammunition factory.

2. What happened the day after Olga met her husband in the camp?
(a) The men were removed from the camp.
(b) All of the barracks were locked down.
(c) She was assigned to work in the infirmary.
(d) Her husband was hanged for insubordination.

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

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

5. To what does the author compare the S.S. women who oversaw the selections in their large black rain capes?
(a) Bats swooping down from the sky.
(b) Ominous ghosts.
(c) Vultures waiting for their prey.
(d) Agents of the devil.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of the author's story, how much of Europe was under Nazi control?

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

3. From where did the blue-eyed man come?

4. What name was given to the barrack's "cages" into which the prisoners were divided?

5. What room became the "apartment" for Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary?

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