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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. How long after their arrival did Olga and her fellow prisoners receive their first morning meal?
(a) A week.
(b) Two days.
(c) Four days.
(d) Three days.

2. Why did L. insist that Olga give out all of the news that he delivered to her?
(a) He wanted to be sure that he could depend on her.
(b) He needed to confuse the Nazis.
(c) Olga would then become more important to the S.S. guards.
(d) The internees needed it to keep up their morale.

3. What was the "astonishing question" that Irma Griese asked Olga?
(a) "How do you know Dr. Klein?"
(b) "Would you like to sit down?"
(c) "What is your name?"
(d) "Where do you come from?"

4. What ingredient in the bread irritated the prisoners' gums?
(a) Gravel.
(b) Sawdust.
(c) Oats.
(d) Peanuts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the German guard beat the woman he accused of not being a "correct" prisoner?

2. How many patients did the hospital in the infirmary hold?

3. What did the resistance use as the principle center for broadcasting its "spoken newspaper"?

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

5. What/who disappeared from the camp in November of 1944?

(see the answer key)

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