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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. Why did the people who were still alive lie on top of one another during their last night on the train car?
(a) To try to stay warm during the cold night.
(b) To avoid coming into contact with the decaying corpses.
(c) Because no one wanted to be near the door when it was opened.
(d) Because there was not enough room in the car for everyone to lie down.

2. 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.

3. What was the first "tax" that was demanded of the passengers in the train car?
(a) Twenty stocking hats and pairs of gloves.
(b) All of their jewels.
(c) Thirty wristwatches.
(d) Twenty fountain pens.

4. 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) He decided that he would live to tell others about the cruelty he had seen.
(d) She might have needed it all, and suicide might be easier for him.

5. How many roll calls occurred each day?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice did the handsome German prisoner have for Olga when she was looking for her son?

2. What did Olga have to give to the blocova in order to keep her escape from the gas chamber a secret?

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

4. Aside from the gas chamber, what other means of extermination did the Nazis use?

5. At the beginning of the author's story, how much of Europe was under Nazi control?

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