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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 the resistance use as the principle center for broadcasting its "spoken newspaper"?
(a) The latrines.
(b) The alley behind the infirmary.
(c) The infirmary.
(d) "Canada."

2. What did Dr. Klein bring for Olga while she and the other inmates were kneeling in the mud?
(a) A box of surgical gloves.
(b) Information about her husband.
(c) Samples of medicine for the infirmary.
(d) New shoes.

3. Why did the German guard beat the woman he accused of not being a "correct" prisoner?
(a) She failed to avert her eyes when he walked by.
(b) She seemed to carry her head too high.
(c) She had been in camp six months, but should have died three months before.
(d) She couldn't carry the load that he ordered her to carry.

4. How many women worked in the kitchen staff?
(a) About forty.
(b) About four hundred.
(c) About three hundred.
(d) Almost one hundred.

5. Where did most prisoners go after they had been used for Dr. Mengele's experiments?
(a) Right back to their barracks.
(b) To the gas chamber.
(c) They were shipped to another camp.
(d) To the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Hungarian girl who was brought to the infirmary?

2. How long had the Polish woman, Irka, been in the camp?

3. Upon reflection, how does Olga Lengyel describe her philosophy about mankind?

4. According to the author, which of the experimental stations was the "most jealously guarded" of them all?

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

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