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

2. What was wrong with the young Greek girl who was brought into the infirmary from a neighboring barrack?
(a) She was mentally ill.
(b) She had dysentery.
(c) She had pneumonia.
(d) She was anemic.

3. What was the "most tragic danger" for the sick in the camp?
(a) Selections.
(b) Infection.
(c) Disease.
(d) Starvation.

4. What was the occupation of the "Lageraelteste" in her life outside of the camp?
(a) She had been a kindergarten teacher.
(b) She had been a police officer.
(c) She had been a baker.
(d) She had been a nurse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the prisoners who drank stagnant water from the puddles?

2. According to the German major who stayed with the Lengyel family, why did his family complain whenever he returned home?

3. What metaphor did the author use to describe the train cars at the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. What did Olga hide in her boot?

5. Why did the prisoners eat the soup even though it was repulsive to them?

(see the answer key)

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