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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. What did Irma Griese do to the handsome Georgian's Polish lover?
(a) She cut off all of her hair.
(b) She had her taken into the woods and shot.
(c) She sent her to the gas chamber.
(d) She sent her to the Auschwitz brothel.

2. According to the author, of what ingredient was the camp soap made?
(a) The soup that was left at the end of each week.
(b) The rendered bodies of rats caught in the camp.
(c) The grease from the cremated bodies of prisoners.
(d) Toiletries taken from the luggage of detainees.

3. What did L. say that he and Olga must both do after the war?
(a) See to it that the Nazis were punished for their crimes.
(b) Write down everything they had seen so that the world would know the truth.
(c) Search for their family members.
(d) Reunite and get to know each other outside of war.

4. What were Dr. Mengele's two favorite studies?
(a) Twins and dwarves.
(b) Reproduction and sterilization.
(c) Pathology and oncology.
(d) Intelligence and dementia.

5. What happened when a woman gave birth in the concentration camp?
(a) The baby was sent to the gas chamber and the mother was relocated.
(b) The mother and child were sent to a special maternity camp.
(c) Both the mother and the child were sent to the gas chamber.
(d) The baby was removed and sent to a German orphanage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had been Tadek's profession before the war?

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

3. Why was Auschwitz made up of mostly Gentile prisoners?

4. What name was given to the prisoner who was chosen to oversee the service within each block?

5. What was distributed to internees as they entered the gas chamber that helped to convince them that they were actually headed for the showers?

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