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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Margarine and stale bread.
(c) Toothpaste spread on bread.
(d) They shared an apple.

2. How did Olga's husband die?
(a) He contracted small pox and died.
(b) He was sent to the gas chamber.
(c) He was shot after trying to smuggle medicine into the hospital.
(d) He was shot during an evacuation march when he stooped to help a fellow prisoner.

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

4. Why could Olga not get a sample of the mysterious powder that was put into the prisoners' food?
(a) No one knew if the powder actually existed.
(b) The kitchen worker was too afraid of being caught.
(c) She did not know anyone who worked in the kitchens.
(d) The only person allowed to go near the powder was an S.S. woman.

5. How many corpses did Olga count along the road as they evacuated from Auschwitz?
(a) 321.
(b) 298.
(c) 89.
(d) 119.

6. How many women were in the march that left from Birkenau with Olga?
(a) Six thousand.
(b) Fifteen thousand.
(c) Ten thousand.
(d) Two thousand.

7. How many women were saved from death on the day that Dr. Klein sent them out of the washroom?
(a) Fifty-four.
(b) Thirty-one.
(c) Forty-two.
(d) Seventy-six.

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

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

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

11. According to the author, how many corpses were burned each day at Bireknau between the crematory ovens and the death pits?
(a) 17,280.
(b) Over 8,000.
(c) 360,000.
(d) About 24,000.

12. Why was Olga uneasy when the French internee came to the infirmary on August 26, 1944?
(a) Men were not supposed to come into the women's infirmary.
(b) She did not trust him.
(c) His wounds were too severe for her to help him.
(d) He seemed too happy, and she was afraid that he had gone mad.

13. One day in June of 1944, where did Irma Griese send the 315 women who were "selected"?
(a) Out of the camp on a work detail.
(b) Into the woods to be shot.
(c) Into a washroom, where they were locked in.
(d) Directly to the crematory.

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

15. After the liberation of Auschwitz, what did the Moscow professor discover in his autopsies of female internees?
(a) Forty percent had been surgically sterilized.
(b) Sixty percent had arsenic poisoning.
(c) Nine out of every ten had a withering of the ovaries.
(d) Three out of every five died from malnutrition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did L. say that he and Olga must both do after the war?

2. Why did the young girl who worked with Olga break into hysterical laughter one day when they entered the morgue?

3. What news did the French internee share with Olga when he came to the infirmary on August 26, 1944?

4. What were Dr. Mengele's two favorite studies?

5. What did Dr. Klein bring for Olga while she and the other inmates were kneeling in the mud?

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