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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 was wrong with the young Greek girl who was brought into the infirmary from a neighboring barrack?
(a) She was mentally ill.
(b) She had dysentery.
(c) She had pneumonia.
(d) She was anemic.

2. What did Olga and her friend trade for a bit of plazki?
(a) A piece of wool.
(b) A hairbrush.
(c) Two aspirin tablets.
(d) Bread and margarine.

3. How did Olga escape from the rope that bound her to the cart?
(a) She rubbed the rope back and forth against the wood on the cart.
(b) She worked her hands loose by pulling and stretching the rope.
(c) She gnawed through them with her teeth.
(d) She used a knife that she had hidden in her skirt.

4. Where was the "American camp" to which the German officer ordered the four American men to be taken?
(a) There was no American camp; they were shot in the woods.
(b) Deeper into German territory.
(c) It was actually the crematory.
(d) Just outside of Auschwitz.

5. What was the handsome, blue-eyed man doing in Olga's barrack?
(a) He was repairing the bunks.
(b) He was a doctor on his rounds.
(c) He had sneaked in to see one of the women.
(d) He was hiding from the camp police.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the ultimate purpose of Birkenau?

2. How many roll calls occurred each day?

3. What did the green triangle on a prisoner's uniform indicate?

4. Why did the Stubendiensts and the German prisoners form a circle around those who were chosen for selection?

5. What did Olga pick up from the ground that helped her escape from the group of prisoners headed for the gas chamber?

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