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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 was Miklos Lengyel's profession?
(a) Linguistics professor.
(b) City adiministrator.
(c) Surgeon.
(d) Lawyer.

2. According to the author, how many serious infections were dealt with in the infirmary as a result of poor sterilization procedures?
(a) Too many to count.
(b) Over two hundred.
(c) Zero.
(d) Twenty.

3. Why did the elderly man give his potatoes to Olga rather than to the woman to whom he had promised them?
(a) He knew Olga from their life before the camp.
(b) Olga looked like she needed the food more than the other woman did.
(c) The other woman was not around.
(d) Olga was younger than the other woman.

4. What was the duty of the blocova's secretary?
(a) To edit the roll call and reports.
(b) To deliver messages to the S.S. offices.
(c) To keep the blocova's office organized.
(d) To write and send out memos to the other prisoners.

5. How often was the water turned on in the washrooms?
(a) Once or twice a week, but only for a few minutes.
(b) Once or twice a day for an hour or two.
(c) They could never know for sure.
(d) Once a day either in the morning or the evening.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the two purposes of camp selections?

2. What was the ultimate purpose of Birkenau?

3. How long had the blue-eyed man been in prison camps?

4. At the beginning of the author's story, how much of Europe was under Nazi control?

5. Aside from the gas chamber, what other means of extermination did the Nazis use?

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