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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 did Olga become a "rich woman" in the camp?
(a) She found friends who comforted her.
(b) She was given her own blanket, which she shared with her bedmates.
(c) She was given extra food by one of the guards.
(d) She made a toothbrush, a handkerchief, and a wooden knife.

2. How long had the Polish woman, Irka, been in the camp?
(a) Six years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Four years.
(d) Fifteen months.

3. What did L. say that he and Olga must both do after the war?
(a) See to it that the Nazis were punished for their crimes.
(b) Search for their family members.
(c) Reunite and get to know each other outside of war.
(d) Write down everything they had seen so that the world would know the truth.

4. What "rumor" did the woman in Olga's barrack share with Dr. Klein?
(a) The S.S. were poisoning the food that was served to the prisoners.
(b) Russian troops were headed in the direction of the camp.
(c) Some people said that the sick were sent to the gas chamber.
(d) Men and women met at lunch time in the washroom.

5. Why did Tadek, the blue-eyed man, stop bringing gifts for Olga?
(a) He found someone that he liked better.
(b) She rejected his sexual advances.
(c) He did not think that she was attractive.
(d) She chose another man over him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the insignia on each train car indicate?

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

3. Why did L. insist that Olga give out all of the news that he delivered to her?

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

5. What did Olga and her fellow prisoners use as a mop?

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