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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/who disappeared from the camp in November of 1944?
(a) Irma Griese.
(b) The selections.
(c) The German guards who patrolled the barbed wire.
(d) The infirmary.

2. What did the green triangle on a prisoner's uniform indicate?
(a) The prisoner was of German origin.
(b) The prisoner was guilty of murder.
(c) The prisoner had been selected for the gas chamber.
(d) The prisoner worked in the infirmary.

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

4. Why did the author and her colleagues dread taking contagious cases to the hospital?
(a) They were afraid that they themselves would catch the diseases.
(b) They were afraid to infect other patients within the hospital.
(c) The nurses and doctors did not have the needed materials to treat them.
(d) Contagious cases were left for dead and sent to the gas chamber.

5. What ingredient in the bread irritated the prisoners' gums?
(a) Peanuts.
(b) Sawdust.
(c) Gravel.
(d) Oats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the handsome, blue-eyed man doing in Olga's barrack?

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

3. Where was the "American camp" to which the German officer ordered the four American men to be taken?

4. What kind of music did Dr. Mengele prefer?

5. What was distributed to internees as they entered the gas chamber that helped to convince them that they were actually headed for the showers?

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