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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 Madga, at first, refuse to attempt escape?
(a) She did not believe in the crematory and thought they would go somewhere better.
(b) She was too frightened to move out of the circle.
(c) She did not want to leave her mother, who was also in the circle.
(d) She was tired of living and had resigned herself to death.

2. According to Olga, what did the word "organize" come to mean among the prisoners?
(a) Pass information.
(b) Brotherhood.
(c) Steal.
(d) Spy.

3. What reply did most prisoners in the concentration camp give to explain their imprisonment?
(a) They fought in the resistance.
(b) They were Jewish.
(c) They did not know why they were there.
(d) They were Polish.

4. Why did Olga and her family join her husband when he was deported?
(a) She believed the family would be better off than they were in Cluj.
(b) She did not want him to suffer the terrors of the camps alone.
(c) She believed everything would be all right as long as they stayed together.
(d) The S.S. forced them from their homes and sent them away. too.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Olga get in the line to have her hair shaved?

2. What happened the day after Olga met her husband in the camp?

3. How did the Germans decide to exterminate the remaining children in the camp?

4. What name was given to the barrack's "cages" into which the prisoners were divided?

5. What physical feature caused Olga to be subjected to ridicule and beatings?

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