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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to the author, how many serious infections were dealt with in the infirmary as a result of poor sterilization procedures?
2. What was the irony in Dr. Lengyel's success in saving Olly's life?
3. According to the German major who stayed with the Lengyel family, why did his family complain whenever he returned home?
4. What time did the infirmary begin to see patients each day?
5. How many people were usually taken from each barrack during a selection?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Dr. and Mrs. Lengyel respond to the stories they heard about the cruelty of the Germans and their treatment of prisoners?
2. In what ways was Birkenau different from Auschwitz?
3. How did Olga's life in the infirmary compare to the life she was previously leading in the camp?
4. Why did Tadek give Olga a potato and a shawl?
5. Describe the conditions of the work in the infirmary.
6. Why did the German guards intentionally assign prisoners to work for which they were unsuited?
7. From the author's point of view, how did nationality affect the treatment that inmates received in the camp?
8. How did the conditions in the "koias" affect the prisoners?
9. What details about their arrival offered the passengers hope that their conditions would be better at the camp?
10. At what point did the deportees realize the true horror of their situation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why did the author find the treatment of the children in the Nazi camps particularly disturbing? What made the treatment and the murder of the children more horrific in her mind?
Essay Topic 2
According to the author, why is the entire world responsible for the atrocities that the Nazis committed? How does the blame of other countries compare to Germany's blame? What must the world do in order to make amends for its mistakes of World War II?
Essay Topic 3
Why did some prisoners survive while others did not? What qualities seemed to enable some prisoners to survive? To what extremes did some inmates resort, and how did these actions affect them?
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