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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 did Madga, at first, refuse to attempt escape?
(a) She was too frightened to move out of the circle.
(b) She did not believe in the crematory and thought they would go somewhere better.
(c) She did not want to leave her mother, who was also in the circle.
(d) She was tired of living and had resigned herself to death.

2. After they disembarked from the train, who was immediately sent to the left?
(a) Healthy, able-bodied people.
(b) Children and old people.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

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

4. How old was Irma Griese?
(a) Thrity.
(b) Twenty-seven.
(c) Twenty-two.
(d) Forty-two.

5. What metaphor did the author use to describe the train cars at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Hell.
(b) Coffins.
(c) Hospital wards.
(d) Cattle barns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the ultimate purpose of Birkenau?

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

3. How many days did the 315 "selected" women wait for Dr. Klein before he arrived to review them?

4. According to the author, how many corpses were burned each day at Bireknau between the crematory ovens and the death pits?

5. After June of 1943, how were most Aryans executed?

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