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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the resistance use as the principle center for broadcasting its "spoken newspaper"?
(a) "Canada."
(b) The alley behind the infirmary.
(c) The latrines.
(d) The infirmary.

2. What did the young Czech boy trade in order to have one night with his lover from the other side of the fence?
(a) A bottle of aspirin.
(b) A bowl and a toothbrush.
(c) Eight days of bread and eight days of soup.
(d) A diamond that he stole from "Canada".

3. What/who disappeared from the camp in November of 1944?
(a) The infirmary.
(b) Irma Griese.
(c) The selections.
(d) The German guards who patrolled the barbed wire.

4. Why did Olga and her companion refrain from wiping their faces even when they sweated?
(a) They were too tired to raise their hands to their faces.
(b) They could drink the sweat that dripped near their mouths.
(c) Their hands were contaminated from the dead bodies.
(d) They did not want to show weakness to the Nazis.

5. How many women were saved from death on the day that Dr. Klein sent them out of the washroom?
(a) Thirty-one.
(b) Forty-two.
(c) Fifty-four.
(d) Seventy-six.

6. What was the weather like when Olga and the rest of her camp were evacuated from Auschwitz?
(a) Blistering hot and humid.
(b) Windy and freezing cold.
(c) Crisp and cool.
(d) Sunny and mild.

7. How many of the crematory buildings were destroyed in the explosion that the resistance set off?
(a) Only one of the four.
(b) All four buildings.
(c) Two out of the four.
(d) Three out of the four.

8. Why did L. come to the infirmary so often?
(a) He had a bad wound on his foot.
(b) He was looking for someone to give him some food.
(c) He was trying to avoid the work he had been assigned to do.
(d) He was lonely for company.

9. What sign did Olga wear to indicate her participation in the resistance?
(a) A piece of twine around her wrist.
(b) A pink hair ribbon.
(c) A silk string around her throat.
(d) A black armband.

10. How did Olga's husband die?
(a) He was shot during an evacuation march when he stooped to help a fellow prisoner.
(b) He contracted small pox and died.
(c) He was shot after trying to smuggle medicine into the hospital.
(d) He was sent to the gas chamber.

11. What were the prisoners who worked outside of the camp forced to do as they marched into and out of camp?
(a) Salute the S.S.
(b) Carry away dead bodies.
(c) Sing.
(d) Pull the work wagons.

12. What service did Irma Griese demand from the surgeon in the infirmary?
(a) The removal of a bunion.
(b) The removal of a mole.
(c) An appendectomy.
(d) An abortion.

13. Why could Olga not get a sample of the mysterious powder that was put into the prisoners' food?
(a) The only person allowed to go near the powder was an S.S. woman.
(b) No one knew if the powder actually existed.
(c) The kitchen worker was too afraid of being caught.
(d) She did not know anyone who worked in the kitchens.

14. What scientific benefit resulted from Dr. Mengele's experiments involving human subjects?
(a) Safer gas masks were designed.
(b) A vaccine for polio was developed.
(c) He discovered penicillin.
(d) No scientific benefit.

15. What gift did L. give to Olga and the other members of the infirmary staff?
(a) Fruit.
(b) Spoons.
(c) Wool.
(d) Margarine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many corpses did Olga count along the road as they evacuated from Auschwitz?

2. What plan did Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary devise in order to save pregnant mothers?

3. What did the Germans plan to do with the patients who were left behind when the camp evacuated?

4. Why did the Germans wait several minutes before they turned on the gas in the gas chambers?

5. Why did Joseph Kramer arrange an unexpected concert for the prisoners in Auschwitz?

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