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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. Why were pregnancies sometimes hard to catch in the initial selection at the station?
(a) The German officers did not always pay close attention to details.
(b) Many women wore several layers of clothing, hoping to be able to keep them all.
(c) They were difficult to miss because there were so many people at the station.
(d) Out of fear, many women tried to hide their pregnancies.

2. What was the irony in Dr. Lengyel's success in saving Olly's life?
(a) Olly later hung herself in the camp.
(b) Olly's family was angry with Dr. Lengyel for interfering.
(c) Dr. Lengyel was punished for performing medicine on the train.
(d) Olly was taken to the gas chamber and murdered the very next day.

3. What surprised Olga about the four men in sports clothes that she saw at the train station?
(a) She knew them from Cluj.
(b) They were speaking English.
(c) They all looked exactly alike.
(d) They seemed to know the German officer who was in charge.

4. What did Olga have to give to the blocova in order to keep her escape from the gas chamber a secret?
(a) A week's ration of margarine.
(b) Her toothbrush.
(c) Her wooden knife.
(d) Her boots.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many prisoners were assigned to carry the 150-pound kettle for each meal?

2. What did Irma Griese forbid Olga to do?

3. Why did Dr. Klein, the chief S.S. doctor of the camp, rebuke Olga when she asked to be allowed to give medical aid to her fellow prisoners?

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

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

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