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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XVII through XXVIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the people who were still alive lie on top of one another during their last night on the train car?
(a) Because there was not enough room in the car for everyone to lie down.
(b) To try to stay warm during the cold night.
(c) To avoid coming into contact with the decaying corpses.
(d) Because no one wanted to be near the door when it was opened.

2. Upon reflection, how does Olga Lengyel describe her philosophy about mankind?
(a) She continued to have faith in mankind and hope for the future.
(b) She believed that only the Nazis could ever be capable of such evil acts.
(c) She believed that mankind is weak and easily influenced by negative forces.
(d) She believed that mankind is basically cruel and the situation influenced this cruelty.

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

4. 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) They were difficult to miss because there were so many people at the station.
(c) Out of fear, many women tried to hide their pregnancies.
(d) Many women wore several layers of clothing, hoping to be able to keep them all.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the building that became Olga's home while she was in Auschwitz?

2. What did the Nazis do with all of the documents they removed from the "political bureau"?

3. How many people within the barracks had to share a single blanket?

4. At each roll call, how many woman were lined up in front of each barrack?

5. Where did the ambulances take the sick and injured who got off the train?

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