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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What ailments produced as much as 30 percent of the infirmary's visits?
(a) Malnutrition and pregnancies.
(b) Scarlet fever and diarrhea.
(c) Skin disorders and anemia.
(d) Malnutrition and epidemics.

3. After June of 1943, how were most Aryans executed?
(a) Shooting, hanging, or poison injections.
(b) The gas chamber or firing squad.
(c) Most were worked to death.
(d) Firing squad only.

4. What did Olga and her friend trade for a bit of plazki?
(a) A hairbrush.
(b) Bread and margarine.
(c) A piece of wool.
(d) Two aspirin tablets.

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

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

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

8. How many corpses did Olga count along the road as they evacuated from Auschwitz?
(a) 298.
(b) 321.
(c) 89.
(d) 119.

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

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

11. What happened to the Hungarian girl who was brought to the infirmary?
(a) Her neck had been pierced by a hooked pole.
(b) She was hit in the back of the head by a brick.
(c) Her foot was infected and gangrenous.
(d) She was shot in the eye by a German guard.

12. What did Irma Griese do to the handsome Georgian man?
(a) She beat his lover and then had him shot.
(b) She sent him to the gas chamber.
(c) She forced him to lick her boots.
(d) She cut deep gashes into his face.

13. What happened to the Veterinarian the night that her lover was taken to the gas chamber?
(a) She became mute.
(b) Her hair turned almost completely white.
(c) She committed suicide.
(d) She had a heart attack and died.

14. What standard did the Germans use to determine which children in the men's camp would be exterminated?
(a) Age.
(b) Weight.
(c) Shoe size.
(d) Height.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author, how many corpses were burned each day at Bireknau between the crematory ovens and the death pits?

3. What song did Olga and the other inmates listen to on the phonograph record?

4. What did the Nazis do with all of the documents they removed from the "political bureau"?

5. What surprised Olga about the four men in sports clothes that she saw at the train station?

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