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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 the infirmary staff sterilize their instruments between patients?
(a) They did not sterilize their instruments because they had nothing to sterilize them with.
(b) They held the instruments into a fire pit to destroy the germs.
(c) They soaked the instruments in grain alcohol between patients.
(d) They washed them with soap and water after each patient.

2. What did the green triangle on a prisoner's uniform indicate?
(a) The prisoner worked in the infirmary.
(b) The prisoner was of German origin.
(c) The prisoner had been selected for the gas chamber.
(d) The prisoner was guilty of murder.

3. What ingredient in the bread irritated the prisoners' gums?
(a) Oats.
(b) Gravel.
(c) Peanuts.
(d) Sawdust.

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

5. What gift did L. give to Olga and the other members of the infirmary staff?
(a) Spoons.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Margarine.
(d) Wool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did L. say that he and Olga must both do after the war?

2. Where did the ambulances take the sick and injured who got off the train?

3. Other than for eating, of what use were the twenty bowls issued to the prisoners in the barracks?

4. How many barracks lined the Lagerstrasse?

5. Why did the young girl who worked with Olga break into hysterical laughter one day when they entered the morgue?

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