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

2. Why did Olga rip her own blouse and dress?
(a) She was trying to create a distraction for another woman.
(b) She knew that the shreds would be useful later.
(c) She tried to pull the clothing out of a guard's hands.
(d) She did not want the Germans to be able to use them.

3. What was wrong with the young Greek girl who was brought into the infirmary from a neighboring barrack?
(a) She was mentally ill.
(b) She had pneumonia.
(c) She was anemic.
(d) She had dysentery.

4. What happened the day after Olga met her husband in the camp?
(a) Her husband was hanged for insubordination.
(b) She was assigned to work in the infirmary.
(c) All of the barracks were locked down.
(d) The men were removed from the camp.

5. How did the children in the camp speak about the goings-on of the camp?
(a) Calmly and realistically.
(b) Tearfully and sometimes hysterically.
(c) Quietly and anxiously.
(d) They did not speak about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the duty of the blocova's secretary?

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

3. What name was given to the barrack's "cages" into which the prisoners were divided?

4. Why did the author and her colleagues dread taking contagious cases to the hospital?

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

(see the answer key)

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