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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 internees were in Olga's camp?
(a) About ten thousand.
(b) Around one hundred thousand.
(c) Over two hundred thousand.
(d) Thirty to forty thousand.

2. What/who disappeared from the camp in November of 1944?
(a) The selections.
(b) Irma Griese.
(c) The infirmary.
(d) The German guards who patrolled the barbed wire.

3. Where did Olga and the other women get bread for their journey?
(a) They had been saving it for an emergency.
(b) It was distributed to each inmate for the journey.
(c) People from the men's camp gave them some before they left.
(d) They smashed in the warehouse door and took the bread.

4. 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."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many women worked in the kitchen staff?

2. What did Olga and her bunk mates have for a "farewell supper" when she left Block 26 to go to Block 13?

3. How long did the roll calls last on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays?

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

5. What news did the French internee share with Olga when he came to the infirmary on August 26, 1944?

(see the answer key)

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