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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters V through IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the duty of the blocova's secretary?
(a) To keep the blocova's office organized.
(b) To write and send out memos to the other prisoners.
(c) To edit the roll call and reports.
(d) To deliver messages to the S.S. offices.

2. Why did the Stubendiensts surround the prisoners who were chosen for selection?
(a) To prevent them from escaping.
(b) To try to prevent the S.S. from taking them to the crematory.
(c) To pray for them before they were taken to the crematory.
(d) To give them privacy from the other prisoners.

3. How many patients did the hospital in the infirmary hold?
(a) Almost one hundred.
(b) Twenty to thirty.
(c) From four to five hundred people.
(d) Two hundred and fifty.

4. Which prisoners were most often chosen to clean the latrines?
(a) Intellectuals like doctors or teachers.
(b) The Jews, preferably the rabbis.
(c) Anyone with dark hair and dark eyes.
(d) The Gypsies.

5. What happened to the prisoners who drank stagnant water from the puddles?
(a) They died.
(b) They were beaten by the kapos.
(c) They were beaten by their fellow prisoners.
(d) They were attacked by the German dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Olga's friends was also chosen for selection at the same time?

2. At each roll call, how many woman were lined up in front of each barrack?

3. What was the ultimate purpose of Birkenau?

4. What was wrong with the young Greek girl who was brought into the infirmary from a neighboring barrack?

5. What did Olga pick up from the ground that helped her escape from the group of prisoners headed for the gas chamber?

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