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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. What scientific benefit resulted from Dr. Mengele's experiments involving human subjects?
(a) A vaccine for polio was developed.
(b) Safer gas masks were designed.
(c) He discovered penicillin.
(d) No scientific benefit.

2. How many roll calls occurred each day?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

3. According to the author, how many serious infections were dealt with in the infirmary as a result of poor sterilization procedures?
(a) Zero.
(b) Too many to count.
(c) Over two hundred.
(d) Twenty.

4. What was the duty of the blocova's secretary?
(a) To edit the roll call and reports.
(b) To write and send out memos to the other prisoners.
(c) To keep the blocova's office organized.
(d) To deliver messages to the S.S. offices.

5. At each roll call, how many woman were lined up in front of each barrack?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 1,400.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 2000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were usually taken from each barrack during a selection?

2. What did the young Czech boy trade in order to have one night with his lover from the other side of the fence?

3. According to the formula devised by the insane mathematics professor, which was devised to explain the problem of the war, what did the variables X, Y, Z, and V stand for?

4. Between May and the end of July of 1944, how many people were executed at Auschwitz-Birkenau?

5. What did Olga and her bunk mates have for a "farewell supper" when she left Block 26 to go to Block 13?

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