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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the "astonishing question" that Irma Griese asked Olga?
(a) "What is your name?"
(b) "Where do you come from?"
(c) "Would you like to sit down?"
(d) "How do you know Dr. Klein?"

3. Why did Joseph Kramer arrange an unexpected concert for the prisoners in Auschwitz?
(a) He was rewarding the prisoners for good behavior.
(b) Olga was not sure, but it made her nervous.
(c) For a propaganda film showing the good treatment the prisoners received.
(d) It was a show for Red Cross officials who were surveying the camp's conditions.

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

5. What brought Olga's husband satisfaction in his job at the camp?
(a) Helping to further the resistance.
(b) Being able to ease the suffering of so many internees.
(c) Knowing that the end of the war was near and the Nazis would pay.
(d) Knowing that Olga would be proud of his work.

6. 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.

7. How long did the roll calls last on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays?
(a) For over six hours.
(b) From dawn until the end of the afternoon.
(c) Until lunch time.
(d) From sunup to sundown.

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

9. 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 had been in camp six months, but should have died three months before.
(c) She failed to avert her eyes when he walked by.
(d) She couldn't carry the load that he ordered her to carry.

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

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

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

13. Through the underground, Olga discovered that her husband was working where?
(a) In "Canada."
(b) In the crematory.
(c) In the hospital at Belsen.
(d) In the camp at Buna.

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

15. 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) Forty percent had been surgically sterilized.
(c) Sixty percent had arsenic poisoning.
(d) Three out of every five died from malnutrition.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Irma Griese?

2. After June of 1943, how were most Aryans executed?

3. What regulation governed the tattooing of prisoners?

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

5. What kind of music did Dr. Mengele prefer?

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