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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters V through IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sign, posted in the camp, assured prisoners that they would be put to work?
(a) "To work is to live!"
(b) "Work is freedom!"
(c) "Hard work is its own reward!"
(d) "Work is the path to happiness!"

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

3. Why did Olga get in the line to have her hair shaved?
(a) She was worried about the threat of lice.
(b) She saw the head-shaving as an expression of mourning.
(c) She preferred to undergo the same treatment as her peers.
(d) She was ordered into the line by a guard.

4. What advice did the handsome German prisoner have for Olga when she was looking for her son?
(a) "Pay one of the guards and he may tell you where to go."
(b) "Pretend to be German, and you might get kind treatment."
(c) "Forget him, and everyone else you knew, and just worry about yourself."
(d) "Don't give up looking, no matter what others tell you."

5. What response did the old inmate give Olga when she asked about the red brick building with the chimney?
(a) He told her that she did not want to know the truth.
(b) He smiled and told her that she would find out soon enough.
(c) He said it was the camp bakery.
(d) He said it was an ammunition factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Olga pick up from the ground that helped her escape from the group of prisoners headed for the gas chamber?

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

3. Why did the Stubendiensts and the German prisoners form a circle around those who were chosen for selection?

4. How many barracks lined the Lagerstrasse?

5. After they disembarked from the train, who was immediately sent to the left?

(see the answer key)

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