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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time did the infirmary begin to see patients each day?
(a) Six o'clock in the morning.
(b) Five o'clock in the morning.
(c) Seven o'clock in the morning.
(d) Four o'clock in the morning.

2. Why did Olga rip her own blouse and dress?
(a) She did not want the Germans to be able to use them.
(b) She was trying to create a distraction for another woman.
(c) She knew that the shreds would be useful later.
(d) She tried to pull the clothing out of a guard's hands.

3. Why did Tadek, the blue-eyed man, stop bringing gifts for Olga?
(a) He did not think that she was attractive.
(b) She chose another man over him.
(c) He found someone that he liked better.
(d) She rejected his sexual advances.

4. Why did Olga renounce her privilege to write postcards to loved ones outside of the camp?
(a) She became suspicious when they were told to date them from another city.
(b) She refused to take any perceived "kindness" from her captors.
(c) She did not know what she could say to anyone about her situation.
(d) She had no one left to whom she could write.

5. Why did Olga go into the washrooms at lunch?
(a) She wanted to find a place to be alone.
(b) She had heard that the men sometimes shared their food with women in there.
(c) She followed along with a friend.
(d) She felt dirty and wanted to try to clean herself.

6. Which prisoners were most often chosen to clean the latrines?
(a) The Jews, preferably the rabbis.
(b) Intellectuals like doctors or teachers.
(c) Anyone with dark hair and dark eyes.
(d) The Gypsies.

7. What name was given to the prisoner who was chosen to oversee the service within each block?
(a) Koia.
(b) Stubendienst.
(c) Lagerkap.
(d) Blocova.

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

9. Why did the Stubendiensts and the German prisoners form a circle around those who were chosen for selection?
(a) To pray for them.
(b) To prevent them from escaping.
(c) To hide them from the guards who were loading the trucks.
(d) To protect them from the S.S.

10. According to the author, why was the male German prisoner, who saved her from the S.S., treated better than other prisoners?
(a) He had connections in the German military.
(b) The German guards owed him favors.
(c) He was a criminal, not a political prisoner.
(d) He was charming and handsome.

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

12. How many languages did the Auschwitz-Birkenau commandant's interpreter speak?
(a) Nine.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

13. Where did the ambulances take the sick and injured who got off the train?
(a) To the camp barracks.
(b) To another train that returned them to their country.
(c) To the infirmary.
(d) To the gas chambers.

14. How long had the Polish woman, Irka, been in the camp?
(a) Four years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Fifteen months.

15. How many patients did the hospital in the infirmary hold?
(a) Twenty to thirty.
(b) Almost one hundred.
(c) Two hundred and fifty.
(d) From four to five hundred people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many prisoners were assigned to carry the 150-pound kettle for each meal?

2. Aside from the gas chamber, what other means of extermination did the Nazis use?

3. How long was the Lagerstrasse?

4. What was wrong with the young Greek girl who was brought into the infirmary from a neighboring barrack?

5. At each roll call, how many woman were lined up in front of each barrack?

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