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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Miklos Lengyel's profession?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Linguistics professor.
(c) City adiministrator.
(d) Surgeon.

3. According to the author, how many serious infections were dealt with in the infirmary as a result of poor sterilization procedures?
(a) Over two hundred.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Too many to count.
(d) Zero.

4. Where did the ambulances take the sick and injured who got off the train?
(a) To the infirmary.
(b) To the camp barracks.
(c) To another train that returned them to their country.
(d) To the gas chambers.

5. What was the first "tax" that was demanded of the passengers in the train car?
(a) Twenty fountain pens.
(b) Twenty stocking hats and pairs of gloves.
(c) All of their jewels.
(d) Thirty wristwatches.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many women worked in the kitchen staff?

3. At the time of the author's story, the city of Cluj was a part of what country?

4. What/who disappeared from the camp in November of 1944?

5. What room became the "apartment" for Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary?

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