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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. How many prisoners were assigned to carry the 150-pound kettle for each meal?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

2. What were the prisoners who worked outside of the camp forced to do as they marched into and out of camp?
(a) Salute the S.S.
(b) Sing.
(c) Carry away dead bodies.
(d) Pull the work wagons.

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

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

5. What was the handsome, blue-eyed man doing in Olga's barrack?
(a) He was repairing the bunks.
(b) He was hiding from the camp police.
(c) He was a doctor on his rounds.
(d) He had sneaked in to see one of the women.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, how many serious infections were dealt with in the infirmary as a result of poor sterilization procedures?

2. What illness afflicted the children who were lying near the door of the train car?

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?

4. Why did Olga not kill Dr. Mengele when she had the chance?

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

(see the answer key)

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