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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Between May and the end of July of 1944, how many people were executed at Auschwitz-Birkenau?
(a) About 24,000.
(b) 512,000.
(c) 442,000.
(d) Over 1,300,000.

3. What did Olga usually do during the camp's "dance soirees"?
(a) She was asleep in her bunk.
(b) She played the music on the phonograph.
(c) She watched from the doorway of her barrack.
(d) She was working in the infirmary.

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

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

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

7. What was distributed to internees as they entered the gas chamber that helped to convince them that they were actually headed for the showers?
(a) Towels and soap.
(b) Claim tickets for their clothing.
(c) Scrub brushes.
(d) Shower caps.

8. What plan did Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary devise in order to save pregnant mothers?
(a) They sneaked the mother out of camp before she gave birth.
(b) They killed the babies before they cried and passed them off as stillborn.
(c) They hid the mothers and their babies after birth.
(d) They found a sympathetic officer who sneaked the babies out of the camp and into nearby orphanages.

9. 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.

10. What were Dr. Mengele's two favorite studies?
(a) Intelligence and dementia.
(b) Pathology and oncology.
(c) Reproduction and sterilization.
(d) Twins and dwarves.

11. How far was the morgue from the hospital?
(a) Over an hour's walk.
(b) A half-hour's walk.
(c) Ten minutes.
(d) Forty minutes.

12. According to the author, why did the Germans keep the insane inmates alive?
(a) They did not find them to be a threat.
(b) They found them "interesting" and wanted to study them.
(c) They were afraid to harm them out of superstitious beliefs.
(d) They viewed them as entertainment, much like pets.

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

14. What did the Germans plan to do with the patients who were left behind when the camp evacuated?
(a) Load them into wagons to be evacuated.
(b) Leave them behind for the Russians to deal with.
(c) March them along the road in a separate group.
(d) Exterminate them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the young Czech boy trade in order to have one night with his lover from the other side of the fence?

2. What happened when a woman gave birth in the concentration camp?

3. Where did most prisoners go after they had been used for Dr. Mengele's experiments?

4. What did L. say that he and Olga must both do after the war?

5. What part of "Canada" reminded Olga of all the infants that had been murdered by the Germans?

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