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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 illness afflicted the children who were lying near the door of the train car?
(a) Dysentery.
(b) Small pox.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Influenza.

2. What did L. say that he and Olga must both do after the war?
(a) Write down everything they had seen so that the world would know the truth.
(b) Search for their family members.
(c) See to it that the Nazis were punished for their crimes.
(d) Reunite and get to know each other outside of war.

3. How far was the morgue from the hospital?
(a) A half-hour's walk.
(b) Over an hour's walk.
(c) Ten minutes.
(d) Forty minutes.

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

5. What happened when a woman gave birth in the concentration camp?
(a) The baby was removed and sent to a German orphanage.
(b) The baby was sent to the gas chamber and the mother was relocated.
(c) Both the mother and the child were sent to the gas chamber.
(d) The mother and child were sent to a special maternity camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon reflection, how does Olga Lengyel describe her philosophy about mankind?

2. What was distributed to internees as they entered the gas chamber that helped to convince them that they were actually headed for the showers?

3. How many women from the infirmary had the task of carrying corpses from the hospital to the morgue?

4. Why did the author and her colleagues dread taking contagious cases to the hospital?

5. Why did Olga rip her own blouse and dress?

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