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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 the resistance use as the principle center for broadcasting its "spoken newspaper"?
(a) The infirmary.
(b) The latrines.
(c) The alley behind the infirmary.
(d) "Canada."

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

3. What had been Tadek's profession before the war?
(a) He was a university professor in Warsaw.
(b) He was a concert violinist in Krakow.
(c) He was a Methodist minister in Vienna.
(d) He was a painter in Berlin.

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

5. How many women from the infirmary had the task of carrying corpses from the hospital to the morgue?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the crematory buildings were destroyed in the explosion that the resistance set off?

2. What was the difference between the coffee that the prisoners were served and the tea that they were given?

3. What was the weather like when Olga and the rest of her camp were evacuated from Auschwitz?

4. Other than for eating, of what use were the twenty bowls issued to the prisoners in the barracks?

5. What time did the infirmary begin to see patients each day?

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