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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 was the ultimate purpose of Birkenau?
(a) The detention of prisoners until the end of the war.
(b) The production of armaments.
(c) The production of clothing for the German army.
(d) The extermination of prisoners.

2. How did the infirmary staff sterilize their instruments between patients?
(a) They did not sterilize their instruments because they had nothing to sterilize them with.
(b) They held the instruments into a fire pit to destroy the germs.
(c) They soaked the instruments in grain alcohol between patients.
(d) They washed them with soap and water after each patient.

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

4. What disease did Tadek's new girlfriend eventually contract?
(a) Dysentery.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Syphilis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Olga have to give to the blocova in order to keep her escape from the gas chamber a secret?

2. According to the author, how many serious infections were dealt with in the infirmary as a result of poor sterilization procedures?

3. What was the handsome, blue-eyed man doing in Olga's barrack?

4. Why did Olga go into the washrooms at lunch?

5. Why did Olga and her family join her husband when he was deported?

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