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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) Arbeit.
(b) Kommandos.
(c) Koias.
(d) Blocova.

2. What were the two purposes of camp selections?
(a) To select prisoners for work detail and to show off German power.
(b) To inventory prisoners and maintain an accurate count.
(c) To select prisoners for the crematory and to locate missing prisoners.
(d) To select some prisoners for the crematory and to decimate the others.

3. What did Olga pick up from the ground that helped her escape from the group of prisoners headed for the gas chamber?
(a) A rock.
(b) A stick.
(c) A hat.
(d) A trash bag.

4. What did the Nazis do with all of the documents they removed from the "political bureau"?
(a) They burned them.
(b) They loaded them into briefcases and locked the latches.
(c) They threw them into boxes and then into the back of a truck.
(d) They dumped them into the latrine.

5. What was distributed to internees as they entered the gas chamber that helped to convince them that they were actually headed for the showers?
(a) Towels and soap.
(b) Claim tickets for their clothing.
(c) Shower caps.
(d) Scrub brushes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Through the underground, Olga discovered that her husband was working where?

4. How many patients did the hospital in the infirmary hold?

5. Of what was Dr. Lengyel accused when he was questioned by the S.S.?

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