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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the young girl who worked with Olga break into hysterical laughter one day when they entered the morgue?
(a) She saw one of the S.S. bend over and rip his pants.
(b) She realized that she would soon be one of those corpses piled on the floor.
(c) She saw the body of her mother, whom she had thought was safely hidden.
(d) The pressure and horror of the job had finally taken its toll on her.

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

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

4. How many days passed between Olga's arrival in the village and the arrival of the Russian troops?
(a) The Russians arrived three days later.
(b) The Russians arrived five days later.
(c) The Russians arrived the next morning.
(d) The Russians arrived that same night.

5. How many women were saved from death on the day that Dr. Klein sent them out of the washroom?
(a) Fifty-four.
(b) Forty-two.
(c) Seventy-six.
(d) Thirty-one.

6. Through the underground, Olga discovered that her husband was working where?
(a) In the camp at Buna.
(b) In "Canada."
(c) In the crematory.
(d) In the hospital at Belsen.

7. Why did Joseph Kramer arrange an unexpected concert for the prisoners in Auschwitz?
(a) He was rewarding the prisoners for good behavior.
(b) It was a show for Red Cross officials who were surveying the camp's conditions.
(c) Olga was not sure, but it made her nervous.
(d) For a propaganda film showing the good treatment the prisoners received.

8. After the liberation of Auschwitz, what did the Moscow professor discover in his autopsies of female internees?
(a) Forty percent had been surgically sterilized.
(b) Sixty percent had arsenic poisoning.
(c) Three out of every five died from malnutrition.
(d) Nine out of every ten had a withering of the ovaries.

9. What was distributed to internees as they entered the gas chamber that helped to convince them that they were actually headed for the showers?
(a) Shower caps.
(b) Scrub brushes.
(c) Towels and soap.
(d) Claim tickets for their clothing.

10. What regulation governed the tattooing of prisoners?
(a) Only prisoners who received special treatment were tattooed.
(b) The tattoo numbers determined the order in which prisoners were executed.
(c) There were no fixed regulations.
(d) All prisoners were tattooed, regardless of their status.

11. What song did Olga and the other inmates listen to on the phonograph record?
(a) "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Benny Goodman.
(b) "Silent Night" by Bing Crosby.
(c) "Puttin' on the Ritz" by Fred Astaire.
(d) "Whistle While You Work" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

12. How many of the crematory buildings were destroyed in the explosion that the resistance set off?
(a) All four buildings.
(b) Two out of the four.
(c) Three out of the four.
(d) Only one of the four.

13. How old was Irma Griese?
(a) Forty-two.
(b) Twenty-two.
(c) Thrity.
(d) Twenty-seven.

14. What part of "Canada" reminded Olga of all the infants that had been murdered by the Germans?
(a) A pile of family photos.
(b) A collection of baby bottles.
(c) A row of baby carriages.
(d) The boxes of baby shoes.

15. Why was Auschwitz made up of mostly Gentile prisoners?
(a) Most of the population in that area of Europe was Gentile.
(b) The Germans had not yet turned their attention to the Jews.
(c) Most of the Jews were immediately sent to the gas chamber.
(d) The Germans believed in keeping the Jews separate from the Gentiles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many corpses did Olga count along the road as they evacuated from Auschwitz?

2. What were Dr. Mengele's two favorite studies?

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

4. What scientific benefit resulted from Dr. Mengele's experiments involving human subjects?

5. What did the resistance use as the principle center for broadcasting its "spoken newspaper"?

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