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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 painter in Berlin.
(d) He was a concert violinist in Krakow.

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

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

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

5. What kind of music did Dr. Mengele prefer?
(a) Broadway show tunes.
(b) American pop music.
(c) Polka music.
(d) Opera, especially Wagner.

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

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

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

9. How many days passed between Olga's arrival in the village and the arrival of the Russian troops?
(a) The Russians arrived three days later.
(b) The Russians arrived the next morning.
(c) The Russians arrived five days later.
(d) The Russians arrived that same night.

10. 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.

11. According to the formula devised by the insane mathematics professor, which was devised to explain the problem of the war, what did the variables X, Y, Z, and V stand for?
(a) Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Roosevelt.
(b) Hitler, Himmler, Hess, and Goebbels.
(c) Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Hitler.
(d) Stalin, Hitler, Mengele, and Griese.

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

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

14. 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) Forty percent had been surgically sterilized.
(d) Sixty percent had arsenic poisoning.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Olga not kill Dr. Mengele when she had the chance?

2. What was the weather like when Olga and the rest of her camp were evacuated from Auschwitz?

3. Where did the prisoners hide their "pinklys" during roll call?

4. How did Olga's husband die?

5. According to camp gossip, what was the purpose of the powder that was mixed into the inmates' food?

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