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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 days did the 315 "selected" women wait for Dr. Klein before he arrived to review them?
(a) Four days.
(b) Five days.
(c) Three days.
(d) Six days.

2. What did the green triangle on a prisoner's uniform indicate?
(a) The prisoner was guilty of murder.
(b) The prisoner had been selected for the gas chamber.
(c) The prisoner worked in the infirmary.
(d) The prisoner was of German origin.

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

4. What did the Germans plan to do with the patients who were left behind when the camp evacuated?
(a) Exterminate them.
(b) Leave them behind for the Russians to deal with.
(c) March them along the road in a separate group.
(d) Load them into wagons to be evacuated.

5. Why did the Stubendiensts surround the prisoners who were chosen for selection?
(a) To give them privacy from the other prisoners.
(b) To prevent them from escaping.
(c) To try to prevent the S.S. from taking them to the crematory.
(d) To pray for them before they were taken to the crematory.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the formula devised by the insane mathematics professor, which was devised to explain the problem of the war, what did the variables X, Y, Z, and V stand for?

3. Between May and the end of July of 1944, how many people were executed at Auschwitz-Birkenau?

4. What was the duty of the blocova's secretary?

5. Why did the prisoners eat the soup even though it was repulsive to them?

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