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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 people within the barracks had to share a single blanket?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) Ten.

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

3. Why did Olga go into the washrooms at lunch?
(a) She felt dirty and wanted to try to clean herself.
(b) She followed along with a friend.
(c) She had heard that the men sometimes shared their food with women in there.
(d) She wanted to find a place to be alone.

4. What did Irma Griese do to the handsome Georgian man?
(a) She beat his lover and then had him shot.
(b) She sent him to the gas chamber.
(c) She forced him to lick her boots.
(d) She cut deep gashes into his face.

5. How many women were saved from death on the day that Dr. Klein sent them out of the washroom?
(a) Seventy-six.
(b) Thirty-one.
(c) Forty-two.
(d) Fifty-four.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Olga's friends was also chosen for selection at the same time?

2. How often was the water turned on in the washrooms?

3. What/who disappeared from the camp in November of 1944?

4. What happened to the Hungarian girl who was brought to the infirmary?

5. What "rumor" did the woman in Olga's barrack share with Dr. Klein?

(see the answer key)

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