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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 were the two purposes of camp selections?
(a) To inventory prisoners and maintain an accurate count.
(b) To select some prisoners for the crematory and to decimate the others.
(c) To select prisoners for work detail and to show off German power.
(d) To select prisoners for the crematory and to locate missing prisoners.

2. Why did the Stubendiensts and the German prisoners form a circle around those who were chosen for selection?
(a) To pray for them.
(b) To hide them from the guards who were loading the trucks.
(c) To protect them from the S.S.
(d) To prevent them from escaping.

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

5. What did Olga pick up from the ground that helped her escape from the group of prisoners headed for the gas chamber?
(a) A stick.
(b) A rock.
(c) A trash bag.
(d) A hat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Olga and her fellow prisoners use as a mop?

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

3. What room became the "apartment" for Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary?

4. What did the green triangle on a prisoner's uniform indicate?

5. How did Olga become a "rich woman" in the camp?

(see the answer key)

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