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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sign did Olga wear to indicate her participation in the resistance?
(a) A silk string around her throat.
(b) A black armband.
(c) A piece of twine around her wrist.
(d) A pink hair ribbon.

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

3. What did Irma Griese do to the handsome Georgian's Polish lover?
(a) She had her taken into the woods and shot.
(b) She sent her to the Auschwitz brothel.
(c) She cut off all of her hair.
(d) She sent her to the gas chamber.

4. What did Dr. Klein bring for Olga while she and the other inmates were kneeling in the mud?
(a) New shoes.
(b) Information about her husband.
(c) A box of surgical gloves.
(d) Samples of medicine for the infirmary.

5. Where did most prisoners go after they had been used for Dr. Mengele's experiments?
(a) They were shipped to another camp.
(b) To the gas chamber.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) Right back to their barracks.

6. What physical feature caused Olga to be subjected to ridicule and beatings?
(a) Her full bosom.
(b) Her large nose.
(c) Her naturally thin eyebrows.
(d) Her lopsided ears.

7. What were the prisoners who worked outside of the camp forced to do as they marched into and out of camp?
(a) Sing.
(b) Pull the work wagons.
(c) Carry away dead bodies.
(d) Salute the S.S.

8. What was the weather like when Olga and the rest of her camp were evacuated from Auschwitz?
(a) Windy and freezing cold.
(b) Blistering hot and humid.
(c) Sunny and mild.
(d) Crisp and cool.

9. What happened to the Veterinarian the night that her lover was taken to the gas chamber?
(a) Her hair turned almost completely white.
(b) She had a heart attack and died.
(c) She became mute.
(d) She committed suicide.

10. What happened to the Hungarian girl who was brought to the infirmary?
(a) She was shot in the eye by a German guard.
(b) Her foot was infected and gangrenous.
(c) Her neck had been pierced by a hooked pole.
(d) She was hit in the back of the head by a brick.

11. What did Olga and her bunk mates have for a "farewell supper" when she left Block 26 to go to Block 13?
(a) Potatoes stolen from the kitchen.
(b) They shared an apple.
(c) Margarine and stale bread.
(d) Toothpaste spread on bread.

12. Where did the prisoners hide their "pinklys" during roll call?
(a) In their blouses.
(b) Under a loose floor board.
(c) Under their mattresses.
(d) Beneath their skirts.

13. What did the Germans plan to do with the patients who were left behind when the camp evacuated?
(a) Exterminate them.
(b) March them along the road in a separate group.
(c) Load them into wagons to be evacuated.
(d) Leave them behind for the Russians to deal with.

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

15. What did Olga usually do during the camp's "dance soirees"?
(a) She played the music on the phonograph.
(b) She watched from the doorway of her barrack.
(c) She was working in the infirmary.
(d) She was asleep in her bunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What song did Olga and the other inmates listen to on the phonograph record?

2. How did the Germans decide to exterminate the remaining children in the camp?

3. Where did Olga and the other women get bread for their journey?

4. Through the underground, Olga discovered that her husband was working where?

5. How did Olga escape from the rope that bound her to the cart?

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