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. According to the author, of what ingredient was the camp soap made?
(a) The grease from the cremated bodies of prisoners.
(b) The soup that was left at the end of each week.
(c) Toiletries taken from the luggage of detainees.
(d) The rendered bodies of rats caught in the camp.

2. How often was the water turned on in the washrooms?
(a) Once or twice a day for an hour or two.
(b) Once or twice a week, but only for a few minutes.
(c) Once a day either in the morning or the evening.
(d) They could never know for sure.

3. At the beginning of the author's story, how much of Europe was under Nazi control?
(a) Three-fourths.
(b) Two-thirds.
(c) Almost half.
(d) One-third.

4. What/who disappeared from the camp in November of 1944?
(a) The selections.
(b) The German guards who patrolled the barbed wire.
(c) The infirmary.
(d) Irma Griese.

5. How much did Olga pay in order to buy a piece of cloth and have a nurse's blouse made?
(a) Eight days' ration of bread and three soups.
(b) All of her tea for a week.
(c) Eight days of bread.
(d) Three days of margarine and bread.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened when a woman gave birth in the concentration camp?

3. Why did Olga get in the line to have her hair shaved?

4. What did Irma Griese forbid Olga to do?

5. Why did the prisoners eat the soup even though it was repulsive to them?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 412 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample