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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XVII through XXVIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprised Olga about the four men in sports clothes that she saw at the train station?
(a) They were speaking English.
(b) They seemed to know the German officer who was in charge.
(c) They all looked exactly alike.
(d) She knew them from Cluj.

2. Why did Olga renounce her privilege to write postcards to loved ones outside of the camp?
(a) She did not know what she could say to anyone about her situation.
(b) She became suspicious when they were told to date them from another city.
(c) She had no one left to whom she could write.
(d) She refused to take any perceived "kindness" from her captors.

3. What ingredient in the bread irritated the prisoners' gums?
(a) Peanuts.
(b) Oats.
(c) Gravel.
(d) Sawdust.

4. What disease did Tadek's new girlfriend eventually contract?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Syphilis.

5. What sign, posted in the camp, assured prisoners that they would be put to work?
(a) "Hard work is its own reward!"
(b) "To work is to live!"
(c) "Work is freedom!"
(d) "Work is the path to happiness!"

Short Answer Questions

1. What room became the "apartment" for Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary?

2. Why did the author and her colleagues dread taking contagious cases to the hospital?

3. How many internees were in Olga's camp?

4. Where was the "American camp" to which the German officer ordered the four American men to be taken?

5. Which of Olga's friends was also chosen for selection at the same time?

(see the answer key)

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