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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 long after their arrival did Olga and her fellow prisoners receive blankets?
(a) Two months.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) One week.
(d) One month.

2. What question did Olga ask of her mother and father before they left the train car?
(a) "Will you pray for me?"
(b) "Can you be strong?"
(c) "Can you forgive me?"
(d) "Will you look after the children?"

3. What did Olga and her fellow prisoners use as a mop?
(a) The sleeves of their own dresses.
(b) The bottom portion of a dress, which had been cut off.
(c) Their socks.
(d) A handful of dirty rags pulled from the garbage pile.

4. How many people were usually taken from each barrack during a selection?
(a) Between 75 and 90 people.
(b) Between 50 and 60 people.
(c) Between 20 and 40 people.
(d) At least 100 people.

5. To what does the author compare the S.S. women who oversaw the selections in their large black rain capes?
(a) Ominous ghosts.
(b) Vultures waiting for their prey.
(c) Agents of the devil.
(d) Bats swooping down from the sky.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After the liberation of Auschwitz, what did the Moscow professor discover in his autopsies of female internees?

3. What was the "most tragic danger" for the sick in the camp?

4. What were the two purposes of camp selections?

5. Why did Olga and her companion refrain from wiping their faces even when they sweated?

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