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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Olga escape from the rope that bound her to the cart?
(a) She rubbed the rope back and forth against the wood on the cart.
(b) She used a knife that she had hidden in her skirt.
(c) She gnawed through them with her teeth.
(d) She worked her hands loose by pulling and stretching the rope.

2. Why did Olga and her companion refrain from wiping their faces even when they sweated?
(a) They did not want to show weakness to the Nazis.
(b) They were too tired to raise their hands to their faces.
(c) Their hands were contaminated from the dead bodies.
(d) They could drink the sweat that dripped near their mouths.

3. What standard did the Germans use to determine which children in the men's camp would be exterminated?
(a) Height.
(b) Shoe size.
(c) Weight.
(d) Age.

4. How many women from the infirmary had the task of carrying corpses from the hospital to the morgue?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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 bottle of aspirin.
(c) A diamond that he stole from "Canada".
(d) A bowl and a toothbrush.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between May and the end of July of 1944, how many people were executed at Auschwitz-Birkenau?

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

3. What did Dr. Klein bring for Olga while she and the other inmates were kneeling in the mud?

4. According to the author, of what ingredient was the camp soap made?

5. Where did Olga and the other women get bread for their journey?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Irma Griese become angry with Olga?

2. How did Dr. Mengele differ from Dr. Klein?

3. Why did Olga and her colleagues begin to murder newborn babies?

4. How did the conditions in camp reveal a person's true nature?

5. Why does Olga say, "I could never decide whether it was harder to dig ditches next to the crematory or work near the railroad station..."?

6. Describe Olga's second, and last, meeting with her husband.

7. In what ways were the inmates in the Czech camp given preferential treatment?

8. How were the S.S. at Auschwitz affected by the news that Paris had been liberated?

9. What metaphor did Olga use to describe the "scientific experiments" that the Nazis performed on prisoners?

10. What was the difference between "organization" and "theft"?

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