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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. According to the author, how many corpses were burned each day at Bireknau between the crematory ovens and the death pits?
(a) Over 8,000.
(b) About 24,000.
(c) 17,280.
(d) 360,000.

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

3. What illness afflicted the children who were lying near the door of the train car?
(a) Small pox.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Influenza.

4. How many patients did the hospital in the infirmary hold?
(a) Twenty to thirty.
(b) From four to five hundred people.
(c) Almost one hundred.
(d) Two hundred and fifty.

5. At the time of the author's story, the city of Cluj was a part of what country?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Romania.
(c) Poland.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many women from the infirmary had the task of carrying corpses from the hospital to the morgue?

2. What was the "astonishing question" that Irma Griese asked Olga?

3. Why did the Germans wait several minutes before they turned on the gas in the gas chambers?

4. Why did Olga's husband decide not to take half of her poison?

5. What part of "Canada" reminded Olga of all the infants that had been murdered by the Germans?

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