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

2. Why did Olga's husband decide not to take half of her poison?
(a) She begged him to leave it all for her.
(b) He remembered where he could find his own poison.
(c) She might have needed it all, and suicide might be easier for him.
(d) He decided that he would live to tell others about the cruelty he had seen.

3. How long had the blue-eyed man been in prison camps?
(a) Two years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Three years.

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

5. 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) Too many to count.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Zero.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after their arrival did Olga and her fellow prisoners receive blankets?

2. What did Olga and her friend trade for a bit of plazki?

3. According to the author, of what ingredient was the camp soap made?

4. How far was the morgue from the hospital?

5. Why did Olga and her family join her husband when he was deported?

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