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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. How did the Germans decide to exterminate the remaining children in the camp?
(a) They stopped feeding them and left them to die of starvation.
(b) They made them stand wet in the freezing weather until they died of exposure.
(c) They threw them into a pit and burned them with gasoline.
(d) They took them into the woods and shot them.

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

3. How many languages did the Auschwitz-Birkenau commandant's interpreter speak?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Nine.

4. According to the German major who stayed with the Lengyel family, why did his family complain whenever he returned home?
(a) He did not send back as much loot as the other officers sent to their families.
(b) He was away from home so much and they missed him.
(c) They disagreed with the way that the Germans were treating prisoners.
(d) He did not make enough money to keep his children fed and clothed.

5. What did the young Czech boy trade in order to have one night with his lover from the other side of the fence?
(a) Eight days of bread and eight days of soup.
(b) A diamond that he stole from "Canada".
(c) A bottle of aspirin.
(d) A bowl and a toothbrush.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had the Polish woman, Irka, been in the camp?

2. How many women from the infirmary had the task of carrying corpses from the hospital to the morgue?

3. What kind of music did Dr. Mengele prefer?

4. What song did Olga and the other inmates listen to on the phonograph record?

5. According to the author, how many serious infections were dealt with in the infirmary as a result of poor sterilization procedures?

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