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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reply did most prisoners in the concentration camp give to explain their imprisonment?
(a) They were Jewish.
(b) They did not know why they were there.
(c) They fought in the resistance.
(d) They were Polish.

2. Why did the author and her colleagues dread taking contagious cases to the hospital?
(a) They were afraid that they themselves would catch the diseases.
(b) The nurses and doctors did not have the needed materials to treat them.
(c) They were afraid to infect other patients within the hospital.
(d) Contagious cases were left for dead and sent to the gas chamber.

3. Other than for eating, of what use were the twenty bowls issued to the prisoners in the barracks?
(a) Collecting rain water.
(b) Weapons during fights.
(c) Chamber pots.
(d) Digging latrines.

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

5. What room became the "apartment" for Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary?
(a) The far end of the hospital wing.
(b) A lean-to behind the washrooms.
(c) The old urinal in Barrack Number 12.
(d) A pantry in the kitchens.

6. What was the original purpose of the building that became Olga's new home?
(a) A munitions plant.
(b) A bakery.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A stable.

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

8. What was the occupation of the "Lageraelteste" in her life outside of the camp?
(a) She had been a baker.
(b) She had been a kindergarten teacher.
(c) She had been a police officer.
(d) She had been a nurse.

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

10. What did the green triangle on a prisoner's uniform indicate?
(a) The prisoner worked in the infirmary.
(b) The prisoner was guilty of murder.
(c) The prisoner was of German origin.
(d) The prisoner had been selected for the gas chamber.

11. Why did Dr. Klein, the chief S.S. doctor of the camp, rebuke Olga when she asked to be allowed to give medical aid to her fellow prisoners?
(a) He believed that they were being adequately cared for.
(b) She spoke to him in a disrespectful manner, and he was offended.
(c) Prisoners were forbidden to speak directly to an S.S. doctor without authorization.
(d) He did not believe that a prisoner had the necessary medical experience or knowledge.

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

13. According to the author, despite his handsome appearance, what characteristic of Dr. Mengele's made a person uneasy?
(a) A wildness in his eyes.
(b) His smug grin.
(c) A nasty scar running under his chin and up to his right ear.
(d) Nothing in particular; just something about his demeanor.

14. How many people were loaded into Olga's train car?
(a) 90.
(b) 110.
(c) 106.
(d) 96.

15. How long had the blue-eyed man been in prison camps?
(a) Two years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Three years.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of the author's story, how much of Europe was under Nazi control?

2. What name was given to the prisoner who was chosen to oversee the service within each block?

3. How long was the Lagerstrasse?

4. What was the name of the building that became Olga's home while she was in Auschwitz?

5. What was the difference between the coffee that the prisoners were served and the tea that they were given?

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