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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters V through IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name was given to the internee who was chosen as barrack chief?
(a) Stubendienst.
(b) Blocova.
(c) Koia.
(d) Kommando.

2. Why did the Stubendiensts surround the prisoners who were chosen for selection?
(a) To pray for them before they were taken to the crematory.
(b) To try to prevent the S.S. from taking them to the crematory.
(c) To prevent them from escaping.
(d) To give them privacy from the other prisoners.

3. What were the two purposes of camp selections?
(a) To select prisoners for the crematory and to locate missing prisoners.
(b) To select some prisoners for the crematory and to decimate the others.
(c) To inventory prisoners and maintain an accurate count.
(d) To select prisoners for work detail and to show off German power.

4. Where did the ambulances take the sick and injured who got off the train?
(a) To the gas chambers.
(b) To the infirmary.
(c) To another train that returned them to their country.
(d) To the camp barracks.

5. Which of Olga's friends was also chosen for selection at the same time?
(a) Irka.
(b) Magda.
(c) Eva.
(d) Lilli.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness afflicted the children who were lying near the door of the train car?

2. Why did Dr. Klein, the chief S.S. doctor of the camp, rebuke Olga when she asked to be allowed to give medical aid to her fellow prisoners?

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

4. What did the green triangle on a prisoner's uniform indicate?

5. How often was the water turned on in the washrooms?

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