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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after their arrival did Olga and her fellow prisoners receive blankets?
(a) Two months.
(b) One month.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) One week.

2. Why did the people who were still alive lie on top of one another during their last night on the train car?
(a) To try to stay warm during the cold night.
(b) Because no one wanted to be near the door when it was opened.
(c) To avoid coming into contact with the decaying corpses.
(d) Because there was not enough room in the car for everyone to lie down.

3. What about the blue-eyed man caught Olga's attention?
(a) He was smiling.
(b) He was missing one ear.
(c) He had a scar on his face.
(d) His head had been shaved.

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

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

6. After they disembarked from the train, who was immediately sent to the left?
(a) Children and old people.
(b) Women.
(c) Healthy, able-bodied people.
(d) Men.

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

8. What was the only restriction upon the Lageraelteste?
(a) She was not allowed to speak to the other prisoners.
(b) She had no restrictions.
(c) She was not permitted to leave the camp.
(d) She was not allowed to keep a servant.

9. How did Olga become a "rich woman" in the camp?
(a) She found friends who comforted her.
(b) She made a toothbrush, a handkerchief, and a wooden knife.
(c) She was given her own blanket, which she shared with her bedmates.
(d) She was given extra food by one of the guards.

10. What name was given to the internee who was chosen as barrack chief?
(a) Kommando.
(b) Stubendienst.
(c) Koia.
(d) Blocova.

11. What was the irony in Dr. Lengyel's success in saving Olly's life?
(a) Olly's family was angry with Dr. Lengyel for interfering.
(b) Dr. Lengyel was punished for performing medicine on the train.
(c) Olly later hung herself in the camp.
(d) Olly was taken to the gas chamber and murdered the very next day.

12. 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) Prisoners were forbidden to speak directly to an S.S. doctor without authorization.
(b) She spoke to him in a disrespectful manner, and he was offended.
(c) He did not believe that a prisoner had the necessary medical experience or knowledge.
(d) He believed that they were being adequately cared for.

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

14. What did Olga have to give to the blocova in order to keep her escape from the gas chamber a secret?
(a) Her wooden knife.
(b) Her toothbrush.
(c) Her boots.
(d) A week's ration of margarine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question did Olga ask of her mother and father before they left the train car?

2. How often were the prisoners allowed to go to the latrines?

3. At the time of the author's story, the city of Cluj was a part of what country?

4. Why did the elderly man not eat the potatoes in his soup?

5. Which prisoners were most often chosen to clean the latrines?

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