View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters X through XVI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease did Tadek's new girlfriend eventually contract?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Syphilis.

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

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

4. What was the ultimate purpose of Birkenau?
(a) The detention of prisoners until the end of the war.
(b) The extermination of prisoners.
(c) The production of armaments.
(d) The production of clothing for the German army.

5. How many internees were in Olga's camp?
(a) About ten thousand.
(b) Over two hundred thousand.
(c) Around one hundred thousand.
(d) Thirty to forty thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Olga, what did the word "organize" come to mean among the prisoners?

2. What question did Olga ask of her mother and father before they left the train car?

3. What ingredient in the bread irritated the prisoners' gums?

4. Why did Olga go into the washrooms at lunch?

5. After June of 1943, how were most Aryans executed?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 245 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample