Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Olga Lengyel
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Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Olga Lengyel
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters X through XVI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were usually taken from each barrack during a selection?
(a) Between 20 and 40 people.
(b) At least 100 people.
(c) Between 75 and 90 people.
(d) Between 50 and 60 people.

2. Why were pregnancies sometimes hard to catch in the initial selection at the station?
(a) Many women wore several layers of clothing, hoping to be able to keep them all.
(b) Out of fear, many women tried to hide their pregnancies.
(c) The German officers did not always pay close attention to details.
(d) They were difficult to miss because there were so many people at the station.

3. Why did Tadek, the blue-eyed man, stop bringing gifts for Olga?
(a) He found someone that he liked better.
(b) He did not think that she was attractive.
(c) She rejected his sexual advances.
(d) She chose another man over him.

4. 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.

5. How many days did the 315 "selected" women wait for Dr. Klein before he arrived to review them?
(a) Three days.
(b) Five days.
(c) Four days.
(d) Six days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Olga and her fellow prisoners use as a mop?

2. What standard did the Germans use to determine which children in the men's camp would be exterminated?

3. How many women were saved from death on the day that Dr. Klein sent them out of the washroom?

4. What regulation governed the tattooing of prisoners?

5. Why could Olga not get a sample of the mysterious powder that was put into the prisoners' food?

(see the answer key)

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