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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Irma Griese forbid Olga to do?
(a) To accompany Dr. Klein on his rounds.
(b) To speak to any other inmate about their meeting.
(c) To look at her in the eye.
(d) To return to the infirmary.

2. What kind of music did Dr. Mengele prefer?
(a) Polka music.
(b) Opera, especially Wagner.
(c) American pop music.
(d) Broadway show tunes.

3. How many women eventually ended up sharing the "apartment" in Barrack 13?
(a) Eight.
(b) Seven.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Ten.

4. How many women were in the march that left from Birkenau with Olga?
(a) Ten thousand.
(b) Two thousand.
(c) Six thousand.
(d) Fifteen thousand.

5. What did Olga usually do during the camp's "dance soirees"?
(a) She was working in the infirmary.
(b) She watched from the doorway of her barrack.
(c) She was asleep in her bunk.
(d) She played the music on the phonograph.

6. What service did Irma Griese demand from the surgeon in the infirmary?
(a) The removal of a bunion.
(b) An abortion.
(c) The removal of a mole.
(d) An appendectomy.

7. Why did the German guard beat the woman he accused of not being a "correct" prisoner?
(a) She couldn't carry the load that he ordered her to carry.
(b) She had been in camp six months, but should have died three months before.
(c) She failed to avert her eyes when he walked by.
(d) She seemed to carry her head too high.

8. What were Dr. Mengele's two favorite studies?
(a) Intelligence and dementia.
(b) Reproduction and sterilization.
(c) Twins and dwarves.
(d) Pathology and oncology.

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

10. Why did the young girl who worked with Olga break into hysterical laughter one day when they entered the morgue?
(a) The pressure and horror of the job had finally taken its toll on her.
(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) She saw one of the S.S. bend over and rip his pants.

11. Where did most prisoners go after they had been used for Dr. Mengele's experiments?
(a) They were shipped to another camp.
(b) To the gas chamber.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) Right back to their barracks.

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

13. How many corpses did Olga count along the road as they evacuated from Auschwitz?
(a) 321.
(b) 298.
(c) 89.
(d) 119.

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

15. According to Olga, what did the word "organize" come to mean among the prisoners?
(a) Brotherhood.
(b) Steal.
(c) Spy.
(d) Pass information.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the Germans decide to exterminate the remaining children in the camp?

3. Why did Olga and her companion refrain from wiping their faces even when they sweated?

4. Where did the prisoners hide their "pinklys" during roll call?

5. What was the weather like when Olga and the rest of her camp were evacuated from Auschwitz?

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