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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Olga get across the icy river to reach the safe village?
(a) She crossed a treacherous bridge.
(b) She swam.
(c) A farmer offered to carry her across on his boat.
(d) She found an abandoned raft and rowed across.

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

3. 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) Scrub brushes.
(b) Shower caps.
(c) Claim tickets for their clothing.
(d) Towels and soap.

4. What happened to all of the inmates who had relatives in America?
(a) They were all exterminated.
(b) They were sent to the American front.
(c) They were sent to Dr. Mengele for use in his experiments.
(d) They were used as human shields by the German army.

5. 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) Exterminate them.
(c) Leave them behind for the Russians to deal with.
(d) March them along the road in a separate group.

6. 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) To the hospital.
(d) They were shipped to another camp.

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

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

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

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

11. According to the author, of what ingredient was the camp soap made?
(a) Toiletries taken from the luggage of detainees.
(b) The grease from the cremated bodies of prisoners.
(c) The soup that was left at the end of each week.
(d) The rendered bodies of rats caught in the camp.

12. What did Dr. Klein bring for Olga while she and the other inmates were kneeling in the mud?
(a) Samples of medicine for the infirmary.
(b) Information about her husband.
(c) New shoes.
(d) A box of surgical gloves.

13. Why did the Germans wait several minutes before they turned on the gas in the gas chambers?
(a) They had to wait for the proper official to arrive and give the order.
(b) They wanted the prisoners to panic before they died.
(c) They let the temperature rise a few degrees to help the gas work better.
(d) They waited to be sure that no more prisoners could fit into the room.

14. 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 hid the mothers and their babies after birth.
(c) They sneaked the mother out of camp before she gave birth.
(d) They found a sympathetic officer who sneaked the babies out of the camp and into nearby orphanages.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What ailments produced as much as 30 percent of the infirmary's visits?

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

3. Why did L. insist that Olga give out all of the news that he delivered to her?

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

5. What did Olga and her friend trade for a bit of plazki?

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