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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was distributed to internees as they entered the gas chamber that helped to convince them that they were actually headed for the showers?
(a) Claim tickets for their clothing.
(b) Shower caps.
(c) Scrub brushes.
(d) Towels and soap.

2. According to Olga, what did the word "organize" come to mean among the prisoners?
(a) Spy.
(b) Steal.
(c) Brotherhood.
(d) Pass information.

3. What brought Olga's husband satisfaction in his job at the camp?
(a) Knowing that Olga would be proud of his work.
(b) Being able to ease the suffering of so many internees.
(c) Helping to further the resistance.
(d) Knowing that the end of the war was near and the Nazis would pay.

4. What had been Tadek's profession before the war?
(a) He was a Methodist minister in Vienna.
(b) He was a concert violinist in Krakow.
(c) He was a university professor in Warsaw.
(d) He was a painter in Berlin.

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

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

7. What/who disappeared from the camp in November of 1944?
(a) The selections.
(b) The infirmary.
(c) Irma Griese.
(d) The German guards who patrolled the barbed wire.

8. Which group in the camp were allowed to receive (for a while) packages from home?
(a) The Gypsies.
(b) The Czechs.
(c) The Poles.
(d) Only Germans.

9. How long did the roll calls last on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays?
(a) Until lunch time.
(b) From sunup to sundown.
(c) From dawn until the end of the afternoon.
(d) For over six hours.

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

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

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

13. Between May and the end of July of 1944, how many people were executed at Auschwitz-Birkenau?
(a) 442,000.
(b) Over 1,300,000.
(c) 512,000.
(d) About 24,000.

14. What plan did Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary devise in order to save pregnant mothers?
(a) They killed the babies before they cried and passed them off as stillborn.
(b) They sneaked the mother out of camp before she gave birth.
(c) They hid the mothers and their babies after birth.
(d) They found a sympathetic officer who sneaked the babies out of the camp and into nearby orphanages.

15. Where did Olga and the other women get bread for their journey?
(a) People from the men's camp gave them some before they left.
(b) It was distributed to each inmate for the journey.
(c) They had been saving it for an emergency.
(d) They smashed in the warehouse door and took the bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when a woman gave birth in the concentration camp?

2. What did Irma Griese do to the handsome Georgian man?

3. What service did Irma Griese demand from the surgeon in the infirmary?

4. Why was Olga uneasy when the French internee came to the infirmary on August 26, 1944?

5. One day in June of 1944, where did Irma Griese send the 315 women who were "selected"?

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