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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. How many languages did the Auschwitz-Birkenau commandant's interpreter speak?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Seven.
(c) Nine.
(d) Five.

2. Why did L. insist that Olga give out all of the news that he delivered to her?
(a) He needed to confuse the Nazis.
(b) The internees needed it to keep up their morale.
(c) Olga would then become more important to the S.S. guards.
(d) He wanted to be sure that he could depend on her.

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?
(a) Prisoners were forbidden to speak directly to an S.S. doctor without authorization.
(b) She spoke to him in a disrespectful manner, and he was offended.
(c) He did not believe that a prisoner had the necessary medical experience or knowledge.
(d) He believed that they were being adequately cared for.

4. Aside from the gas chamber, what other means of extermination did the Nazis use?
(a) Beheading.
(b) Humane euthanasia.
(c) Food poisoning.
(d) An injection of phenol into the heart.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. Klein bring for Olga while she and the other inmates were kneeling in the mud?

2. Why did the elderly man not eat the potatoes in his soup?

3. What surprised Olga about the four men in sports clothes that she saw at the train station?

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

5. What gift did L. give to Olga and the other members of the infirmary staff?

(see the answer key)

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