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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the German guard beat the woman he accused of not being a "correct" prisoner?
(a) She seemed to carry her head too high.
(b) She couldn't carry the load that he ordered her to carry.
(c) She had been in camp six months, but should have died three months before.
(d) She failed to avert her eyes when he walked by.

2. Which group in the camp were allowed to receive (for a while) packages from home?
(a) The Poles.
(b) The Gypsies.
(c) The Czechs.
(d) Only Germans.

3. How many women from the infirmary had the task of carrying corpses from the hospital to the morgue?
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

4. After the liberation of Auschwitz, what did the Moscow professor discover in his autopsies of female internees?
(a) Sixty percent had arsenic poisoning.
(b) Three out of every five died from malnutrition.
(c) Forty percent had been surgically sterilized.
(d) Nine out of every ten had a withering of the ovaries.

5. Where was the "American camp" to which the German officer ordered the four American men to be taken?
(a) It was actually the crematory.
(b) Deeper into German territory.
(c) There was no American camp; they were shot in the woods.
(d) Just outside of Auschwitz.

6. What did Irma Griese forbid Olga to do?
(a) To accompany Dr. Klein on his rounds.
(b) To look at her in the eye.
(c) To return to the infirmary.
(d) To speak to any other inmate about their meeting.

7. Where did most prisoners go after they had been used for Dr. Mengele's experiments?
(a) To the gas chamber.
(b) Right back to their barracks.
(c) They were shipped to another camp.
(d) To the hospital.

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

9. Why did the young girl who worked with Olga break into hysterical laughter one day when they entered the morgue?
(a) The pressure and horror of the job had finally taken its toll on her.
(b) She saw the body of her mother, whom she had thought was safely hidden.
(c) She saw one of the S.S. bend over and rip his pants.
(d) She realized that she would soon be one of those corpses piled on the floor.

10. What song did Olga and the other inmates listen to on the phonograph record?
(a) "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Benny Goodman.
(b) "Whistle While You Work" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
(c) "Silent Night" by Bing Crosby.
(d) "Puttin' on the Ritz" by Fred Astaire.

11. How old was Irma Griese?
(a) Forty-two.
(b) Twenty-seven.
(c) Twenty-two.
(d) Thrity.

12. According to Olga, what did the word "organize" come to mean among the prisoners?
(a) Spy.
(b) Pass information.
(c) Steal.
(d) Brotherhood.

13. What did Irma Griese do to the handsome Georgian's Polish lover?
(a) She cut off all of her hair.
(b) She sent her to the Auschwitz brothel.
(c) She sent her to the gas chamber.
(d) She had her taken into the woods and shot.

14. Why did Olga not kill Dr. Mengele when she had the chance?
(a) She knew that the entire camp would be punished for her actions.
(b) She hesitated and lost the opportunity.
(c) She was too afraid for her own life.
(d) She knew she must live to tell the story.

15. How did the Germans decide to exterminate the remaining children in the camp?
(a) They stopped feeding them and left them to die of starvation.
(b) They threw them into a pit and burned them with gasoline.
(c) They took them into the woods and shot them.
(d) They made them stand wet in the freezing weather until they died of exposure.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did L. come to the infirmary so often?

3. How many women were saved from death on the day that Dr. Klein sent them out of the washroom?

4. What was the weather like when Olga and the rest of her camp were evacuated from Auschwitz?

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

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