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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 name was given to the barrack's "cages" into which the prisoners were divided?
(a) Kommandos.
(b) Blocova.
(c) Koias.
(d) Arbeit.

2. What did the insignia on each train car indicate?
(a) The concentration camp to which each car was headed.
(b) The explanation for the deportation of the people inside the cars.
(c) The countries from which the cars originated.
(d) The number of animals that each car was designed to transport.

3. How did Olga's husband die?
(a) He contracted small pox and died.
(b) He was shot after trying to smuggle medicine into the hospital.
(c) He was shot during an evacuation march when he stooped to help a fellow prisoner.
(d) He was sent to the gas chamber.

4. What news did the French internee share with Olga when he came to the infirmary on August 26, 1944?
(a) "Irma Griese is being transferred."
(b) "Paris is liberated."
(c) "The camp is to be liquidated."
(d) "I know where your husband is."

5. What plan did Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary devise in order to save pregnant mothers?
(a) They killed the babies before they cried and passed them off as stillborn.
(b) They hid the mothers and their babies after birth.
(c) They sneaked the mother out of camp before she gave birth.
(d) They found a sympathetic officer who sneaked the babies out of the camp and into nearby orphanages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did most prisoners go after they had been used for Dr. Mengele's experiments?

2. Which group in the camp were allowed to receive (for a while) packages from home?

3. How long had the blue-eyed man been in prison camps?

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

5. According to Olga, what did the word "organize" come to mean among the prisoners?

(see the answer key)

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