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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Dr. Klein, the chief S.S. doctor of the camp, rebuke Olga when she asked to be allowed to give medical aid to her fellow prisoners?
(a) He did not believe that a prisoner had the necessary medical experience or knowledge.
(b) Prisoners were forbidden to speak directly to an S.S. doctor without authorization.
(c) She spoke to him in a disrespectful manner, and he was offended.
(d) He believed that they were being adequately cared for.

2. What name was given to the prisoner who was chosen to oversee the service within each block?
(a) Lagerkap.
(b) Blocova.
(c) Koia.
(d) Stubendienst.

3. What sign, posted in the camp, assured prisoners that they would be put to work?
(a) "Work is freedom!"
(b) "Hard work is its own reward!"
(c) "Work is the path to happiness!"
(d) "To work is to live!"

4. According to the author, despite his handsome appearance, what characteristic of Dr. Mengele's made a person uneasy?
(a) A wildness in his eyes.
(b) A nasty scar running under his chin and up to his right ear.
(c) Nothing in particular; just something about his demeanor.
(d) His smug grin.

5. What did Olga have to give to the blocova in order to keep her escape from the gas chamber a secret?
(a) Her wooden knife.
(b) Her boots.
(c) A week's ration of margarine.
(d) Her toothbrush.

6. What was wrong with the young Greek girl who was brought into the infirmary from a neighboring barrack?
(a) She had pneumonia.
(b) She was mentally ill.
(c) She had dysentery.
(d) She was anemic.

7. What did Olga pick up from the ground that helped her escape from the group of prisoners headed for the gas chamber?
(a) A stick.
(b) A rock.
(c) A trash bag.
(d) A hat.

8. Aside from the gas chamber, what other means of extermination did the Nazis use?
(a) Beheading.
(b) Humane euthanasia.
(c) Food poisoning.
(d) An injection of phenol into the heart.

9. Why did Madga, at first, refuse to attempt escape?
(a) She did not want to leave her mother, who was also in the circle.
(b) She was too frightened to move out of the circle.
(c) She did not believe in the crematory and thought they would go somewhere better.
(d) She was tired of living and had resigned herself to death.

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

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

12. How many languages did the Auschwitz-Birkenau commandant's interpreter speak?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Nine.

13. What room became the "apartment" for Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary?
(a) A pantry in the kitchens.
(b) The old urinal in Barrack Number 12.
(c) A lean-to behind the washrooms.
(d) The far end of the hospital wing.

14. What happened to the prisoners who drank stagnant water from the puddles?
(a) They died.
(b) They were beaten by their fellow prisoners.
(c) They were beaten by the kapos.
(d) They were attacked by the German dogs.

15. Why did Olga get in the line to have her hair shaved?
(a) She preferred to undergo the same treatment as her peers.
(b) She was worried about the threat of lice.
(c) She was ordered into the line by a guard.
(d) She saw the head-shaving as an expression of mourning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease did Tadek's new girlfriend eventually contract?

2. Other than for eating, of what use were the twenty bowls issued to the prisoners in the barracks?

3. How did Olga become a "rich woman" in the camp?

4. After they disembarked from the train, who was immediately sent to the left?

5. From where did the blue-eyed man come?

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