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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters X through XVI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Other than for eating, of what use were the twenty bowls issued to the prisoners in the barracks?
(a) Chamber pots.
(b) Weapons during fights.
(c) Digging latrines.
(d) Collecting rain water.

2. Why did L. come to the infirmary so often?
(a) He was trying to avoid the work he had been assigned to do.
(b) He was lonely for company.
(c) He was looking for someone to give him some food.
(d) He had a bad wound on his foot.

3. At each roll call, how many woman were lined up in front of each barrack?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 1,400.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 2000.

4. Why did Olga and her family join her husband when he was deported?
(a) She believed the family would be better off than they were in Cluj.
(b) She believed everything would be all right as long as they stayed together.
(c) The S.S. forced them from their homes and sent them away. too.
(d) She did not want him to suffer the terrors of the camps alone.

5. What happened to the Hungarian girl who was brought to the infirmary?
(a) Her foot was infected and gangrenous.
(b) She was shot in the eye by a German guard.
(c) She was hit in the back of the head by a brick.
(d) Her neck had been pierced by a hooked pole.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were loaded into Olga's train car?

2. What sign, posted in the camp, assured prisoners that they would be put to work?

3. What was the duty of the blocova's secretary?

4. What time did the infirmary begin to see patients each day?

5. What illness afflicted the children who were lying near the door of the train car?

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