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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. What was the "astonishing question" that Irma Griese asked Olga?
(a) "What is your name?"
(b) "How do you know Dr. Klein?"
(c) "Would you like to sit down?"
(d) "Where do you come from?"

2. Between May and the end of July of 1944, how many people were executed at Auschwitz-Birkenau?
(a) About 24,000.
(b) Over 1,300,000.
(c) 512,000.
(d) 442,000.

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

4. What was the only restriction upon the Lageraelteste?
(a) She was not allowed to speak to the other prisoners.
(b) She was not permitted to leave the camp.
(c) She had no restrictions.
(d) She was not allowed to keep a servant.

5. Why did the Stubendiensts and the German prisoners form a circle around those who were chosen for selection?
(a) To hide them from the guards who were loading the trucks.
(b) To pray for them.
(c) To protect them from the S.S.
(d) To prevent them from escaping.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, how many serious infections were dealt with in the infirmary as a result of poor sterilization procedures?

2. According to the author, why was the male German prisoner, who saved her from the S.S., treated better than other prisoners?

3. How did the infirmary staff sterilize their instruments between patients?

4. What time did the infirmary begin to see patients each day?

5. How did the children in the camp speak about the goings-on of the camp?

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