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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 did Olga and her fellow prisoners use as a mop?
(a) The sleeves of their own dresses.
(b) The bottom portion of a dress, which had been cut off.
(c) Their socks.
(d) A handful of dirty rags pulled from the garbage pile.

2. What was the name of the building that became Olga's home while she was in Auschwitz?
(a) Barrack 26.
(b) The Bakery.
(c) Birkenau.
(d) Barrack 23.

3. How did the children in the camp speak about the goings-on of the camp?
(a) Calmly and realistically.
(b) Quietly and anxiously.
(c) Tearfully and sometimes hysterically.
(d) They did not speak about it.

4. How long after their arrival did Olga and her fellow prisoners receive their first morning meal?
(a) Four days.
(b) Two days.
(c) A week.
(d) Three days.

5. Where did the ambulances take the sick and injured who got off the train?
(a) To another train that returned them to their country.
(b) To the infirmary.
(c) To the gas chambers.
(d) To the camp barracks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was Olga chosen for selection in Chapter 8?

3. What ingredient in the bread irritated the prisoners' gums?

4. What did Olga assume when she saw the pitiful women in the cages?

5. Why did the elderly man not eat the potatoes in his soup?

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