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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters I through IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What illness afflicted the children who were lying near the door of the train car?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Small pox.

3. What was Miklos Lengyel's profession?
(a) Linguistics professor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) City adiministrator.
(d) Surgeon.

4. At the beginning of the author's story, how much of Europe was under Nazi control?
(a) Almost half.
(b) One-third.
(c) Three-fourths.
(d) Two-thirds.

5. After they disembarked from the train, who was immediately sent to the left?
(a) Children and old people.
(b) Healthy, able-bodied people.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would happen to the prisoners if they tried to sneak to the latrines at night?

2. What name was given to the internee who was chosen as barrack chief?

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

4. Why did Olga get in the line to have her hair shaved?

5. What happened the day after Olga met her husband in the camp?

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