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

2. What was the weather like when Olga and the rest of her camp were evacuated from Auschwitz?
(a) Windy and freezing cold.
(b) Blistering hot and humid.
(c) Sunny and mild.
(d) Crisp and cool.

3. According to the formula devised by the insane mathematics professor, which was devised to explain the problem of the war, what did the variables X, Y, Z, and V stand for?
(a) Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Hitler.
(b) Hitler, Himmler, Hess, and Goebbels.
(c) Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Roosevelt.
(d) Stalin, Hitler, Mengele, and Griese.

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

5. What surprised Olga about the four men in sports clothes that she saw at the train station?
(a) They were speaking English.
(b) She knew them from Cluj.
(c) They seemed to know the German officer who was in charge.
(d) They all looked exactly alike.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the prisoners who worked outside of the camp forced to do as they marched into and out of camp?

2. Why could Olga not get a sample of the mysterious powder that was put into the prisoners' food?

3. What plan did Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary devise in order to save pregnant mothers?

4. What were Dr. Mengele's two favorite studies?

5. How much did Olga pay in order to buy a piece of cloth and have a nurse's blouse made?

(see the answer key)

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