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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 were the two purposes of camp selections?
(a) To select prisoners for work detail and to show off German power.
(b) To select some prisoners for the crematory and to decimate the others.
(c) To select prisoners for the crematory and to locate missing prisoners.
(d) To inventory prisoners and maintain an accurate count.

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

3. What was the "most tragic danger" for the sick in the camp?
(a) Selections.
(b) Infection.
(c) Starvation.
(d) Disease.

4. Why did Olga get in the line to have her hair shaved?
(a) She preferred to undergo the same treatment as her peers.
(b) She saw the head-shaving as an expression of mourning.
(c) She was ordered into the line by a guard.
(d) She was worried about the threat of lice.

5. After they disembarked from the train, who was immediately sent to the left?
(a) Healthy, able-bodied people.
(b) Children and old people.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many roll calls occurred each day?

2. What time did the infirmary begin to see patients each day?

3. Why did the elderly man give his potatoes to Olga rather than to the woman to whom he had promised them?

4. What disease did Tadek's new girlfriend eventually contract?

5. What was the first "tax" that was demanded of the passengers in the train car?

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