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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Miklos Lengyel's profession?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Linguistics professor.
(c) Surgeon.
(d) City adiministrator.

2. Of what was Dr. Lengyel accused when he was questioned by the S.S.?
(a) Boycotting the use of German pharmeceuticals in his clinic.
(b) Hiding Jewish families in his hospital.
(c) Providing free medical services to Gypsies.
(d) Distributing anti-Nazi propaganda.

3. How many people were usually taken from each barrack during a selection?
(a) Between 75 and 90 people.
(b) Between 50 and 60 people.
(c) At least 100 people.
(d) Between 20 and 40 people.

4. What illness afflicted the children who were lying near the door of the train car?
(a) Dysentery.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Small pox.

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

6. How often were the prisoners allowed to go to the latrines?
(a) Once a day.
(b) Three times, once after each meal.
(c) Four times each day.
(d) Twice each day.

7. How did the children in the camp speak about the goings-on of the camp?
(a) Calmly and realistically.
(b) They did not speak about it.
(c) Quietly and anxiously.
(d) Tearfully and sometimes hysterically.

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

9. Why did Olga get in the line to have her hair shaved?
(a) She was ordered into the line by a guard.
(b) She preferred to undergo the same treatment as her peers.
(c) She saw the head-shaving as an expression of mourning.
(d) She was worried about the threat of lice.

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

11. What metaphor did the author use to describe the train cars at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Coffins.
(b) Hell.
(c) Hospital wards.
(d) Cattle barns.

12. Why was Olga chosen for selection in Chapter 8?
(a) She stole food from the kitchen.
(b) She was so sick that she couldn't get out of her bunk.
(c) She covered her back with a piece of wool.
(d) She tried to stab the blocova.

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

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

15. What was the first "tax" that was demanded of the passengers in the train car?
(a) Thirty wristwatches.
(b) Twenty fountain pens.
(c) All of their jewels.
(d) Twenty stocking hats and pairs of gloves.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. From where did the blue-eyed man come?

4. What room became the "apartment" for Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary?

5. How many women worked in the kitchen staff?

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