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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XVII through XXVIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Olga and her bunk mates have for a "farewell supper" when she left Block 26 to go to Block 13?
(a) Potatoes stolen from the kitchen.
(b) They shared an apple.
(c) Toothpaste spread on bread.
(d) Margarine and stale bread.

2. Why did L. come to the infirmary so often?
(a) He was looking for someone to give him some food.
(b) He had a bad wound on his foot.
(c) He was lonely for company.
(d) He was trying to avoid the work he had been assigned to do.

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

4. What were the prisoners who worked outside of the camp forced to do as they marched into and out of camp?
(a) Salute the S.S.
(b) Carry away dead bodies.
(c) Pull the work wagons.
(d) Sing.

5. Aside from the gas chamber, what other means of extermination did the Nazis use?
(a) Food poisoning.
(b) An injection of phenol into the heart.
(c) Beheading.
(d) Humane euthanasia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the prisoners who drank stagnant water from the puddles?

2. After the liberation of Auschwitz, what did the Moscow professor discover in his autopsies of female internees?

3. What part of "Canada" reminded Olga of all the infants that had been murdered by the Germans?

4. Why did the Stubendiensts and the German prisoners form a circle around those who were chosen for selection?

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

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