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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XVII through XXVIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the time of the author's story, the city of Cluj was a part of what country?
(a) Poland.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Russia.
(d) Romania.

2. According to the German major who stayed with the Lengyel family, why did his family complain whenever he returned home?
(a) He was away from home so much and they missed him.
(b) They disagreed with the way that the Germans were treating prisoners.
(c) He did not make enough money to keep his children fed and clothed.
(d) He did not send back as much loot as the other officers sent to their families.

3. What/who disappeared from the camp in November of 1944?
(a) The selections.
(b) Irma Griese.
(c) The German guards who patrolled the barbed wire.
(d) The infirmary.

4. Why did the author and her colleagues dread taking contagious cases to the hospital?
(a) Contagious cases were left for dead and sent to the gas chamber.
(b) The nurses and doctors did not have the needed materials to treat them.
(c) They were afraid that they themselves would catch the diseases.
(d) They were afraid to infect other patients within the hospital.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Aside from the gas chamber, what other means of extermination did the Nazis use?

2. According to Olga, what did the word "organize" come to mean among the prisoners?

3. At each roll call, how many woman were lined up in front of each barrack?

4. How many prisoners were assigned to carry the 150-pound kettle for each meal?

5. What did Irma Griese do to the handsome Georgian man?

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