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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did the prisoners hide their "pinklys" during roll call?
(a) Under their mattresses.
(b) Under a loose floor board.
(c) In their blouses.
(d) Beneath their skirts.

4. How many of the crematory buildings were destroyed in the explosion that the resistance set off?
(a) Two out of the four.
(b) All four buildings.
(c) Three out of the four.
(d) Only one of the four.

5. What sign did Olga wear to indicate her participation in the resistance?
(a) A black armband.
(b) A piece of twine around her wrist.
(c) A pink hair ribbon.
(d) A silk string around her throat.

6. How old was Irma Griese?
(a) Twenty-two.
(b) Thrity.
(c) Twenty-seven.
(d) Forty-two.

7. What were the prisoners who worked outside of the camp forced to do as they marched into and out of camp?
(a) Sing.
(b) Pull the work wagons.
(c) Salute the S.S.
(d) Carry away dead bodies.

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

9. Why was Olga uneasy when the French internee came to the infirmary on August 26, 1944?
(a) His wounds were too severe for her to help him.
(b) He seemed too happy, and she was afraid that he had gone mad.
(c) She did not trust him.
(d) Men were not supposed to come into the women's infirmary.

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

11. 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.

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

13. What did the resistance use as the principle center for broadcasting its "spoken newspaper"?
(a) "Canada."
(b) The latrines.
(c) The alley behind the infirmary.
(d) The infirmary.

14. Why were pregnancies sometimes hard to catch in the initial selection at the station?
(a) The German officers did not always pay close attention to details.
(b) Many women wore several layers of clothing, hoping to be able to keep them all.
(c) Out of fear, many women tried to hide their pregnancies.
(d) They were difficult to miss because there were so many people at the station.

15. Where did Olga and the other women get bread for their journey?
(a) People from the men's camp gave them some before they left.
(b) They had been saving it for an emergency.
(c) They smashed in the warehouse door and took the bread.
(d) It was distributed to each inmate for the journey.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many women from the infirmary had the task of carrying corpses from the hospital to the morgue?

2. How did Olga get across the icy river to reach the safe village?

3. What did Irma Griese do to the handsome Georgian man?

4. What did Irma Griese forbid Olga to do?

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

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