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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) Four o'clock in the morning.
(c) Five o'clock in the morning.
(d) Seven o'clock in the morning.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What was the "most tragic danger" for the sick in the camp?
(a) Selections.
(b) Starvation.
(c) Disease.
(d) Infection.

8. How often was the water turned on in the washrooms?
(a) Once or twice a week, but only for a few minutes.
(b) They could never know for sure.
(c) Once a day either in the morning or the evening.
(d) Once or twice a day for an hour or two.

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

10. What advice did the handsome German prisoner have for Olga when she was looking for her son?
(a) "Pretend to be German, and you might get kind treatment."
(b) "Forget him, and everyone else you knew, and just worry about yourself."
(c) "Pay one of the guards and he may tell you where to go."
(d) "Don't give up looking, no matter what others tell you."

11. How many prisoners were assigned to carry the 150-pound kettle for each meal?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

13. 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 hide them from the guards who were loading the trucks.
(c) To prevent them from escaping.
(d) To protect them from the S.S.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the original purpose of the building that became Olga's new home?

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

3. What name was given to the internee who was chosen as barrack chief?

4. Why did the prisoners eat the soup even though it was repulsive to them?

5. Why did the people who were still alive lie on top of one another during their last night on the train car?

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