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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did L. insist that Olga give out all of the news that he delivered to her?
(a) He wanted to be sure that he could depend on her.
(b) The internees needed it to keep up their morale.
(c) Olga would then become more important to the S.S. guards.
(d) He needed to confuse the Nazis.

2. What surprised Olga about the four men in sports clothes that she saw at the train station?
(a) They were speaking English.
(b) They all looked exactly alike.
(c) She knew them from Cluj.
(d) They seemed to know the German officer who was in charge.

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

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

5. What did L. say that he and Olga must both do after the war?
(a) Reunite and get to know each other outside of war.
(b) Search for their family members.
(c) See to it that the Nazis were punished for their crimes.
(d) Write down everything they had seen so that the world would know the truth.

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

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

8. What did the Nazis do with all of the documents they removed from the "political bureau"?
(a) They dumped them into the latrine.
(b) They burned them.
(c) They loaded them into briefcases and locked the latches.
(d) They threw them into boxes and then into the back of a truck.

9. 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) Nine out of every ten had a withering of the ovaries.
(d) Forty percent had been surgically sterilized.

10. What regulation governed the tattooing of prisoners?
(a) The tattoo numbers determined the order in which prisoners were executed.
(b) All prisoners were tattooed, regardless of their status.
(c) Only prisoners who received special treatment were tattooed.
(d) There were no fixed regulations.

11. According to the author, how many corpses were burned each day at Bireknau between the crematory ovens and the death pits?
(a) Over 8,000.
(b) 360,000.
(c) About 24,000.
(d) 17,280.

12. How many women eventually ended up sharing the "apartment" in Barrack 13?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Eight.
(d) Seven.

13. 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 black armband.
(d) A silk string around her throat.

14. What had been Tadek's profession before the war?
(a) He was a university professor in Warsaw.
(b) He was a Methodist minister in Vienna.
(c) He was a concert violinist in Krakow.
(d) He was a painter in Berlin.

15. 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 hid the mothers and their babies after birth.
(c) They found a sympathetic officer who sneaked the babies out of the camp and into nearby orphanages.
(d) They killed the babies before they cried and passed them off as stillborn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What brought Olga's husband satisfaction in his job at the camp?

2. How old was Irma Griese?

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

4. What/who disappeared from the camp in November of 1944?

5. What happened to all of the inmates who had relatives in America?

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