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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. Why did Olga renounce her privilege to write postcards to loved ones outside of the camp?
(a) She became suspicious when they were told to date them from another city.
(b) She had no one left to whom she could write.
(c) She did not know what she could say to anyone about her situation.
(d) She refused to take any perceived "kindness" from her captors.

2. According to the German major who stayed with the Lengyel family, why did his family complain whenever he returned home?
(a) He did not send back as much loot as the other officers sent to their families.
(b) He was away from home so much and they missed him.
(c) They disagreed with the way that the Germans were treating prisoners.
(d) He did not make enough money to keep his children fed and clothed.

3. What metaphor did the author use to describe the train cars at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Cattle barns.
(b) Hospital wards.
(c) Hell.
(d) Coffins.

4. Other than for eating, of what use were the twenty bowls issued to the prisoners in the barracks?
(a) Weapons during fights.
(b) Collecting rain water.
(c) Chamber pots.
(d) Digging latrines.

5. Why did the prisoners eat the soup even though it was repulsive to them?
(a) They hoped to find one of the "surprises" in the bottom.
(b) The German guards would beat them if they did not eat.
(c) They did not want to offend their captors.
(d) They knew that if they did not eat, they would die.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many languages did the Auschwitz-Birkenau commandant's interpreter speak?

2. What name was given to the barrack's "cages" into which the prisoners were divided?

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

4. How many people within the barracks had to share a single blanket?

5. Why did Olga's husband decide not to take half of her poison?

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