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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Olga and her companion refrain from wiping their faces even when they sweated?
(a) They were too tired to raise their hands to their faces.
(b) They did not want to show weakness to the Nazis.
(c) They could drink the sweat that dripped near their mouths.
(d) Their hands were contaminated from the dead bodies.

2. According to camp gossip, what was the purpose of the powder that was mixed into the inmates' food?
(a) To cause degeneration of the brain.
(b) To cause anemia.
(c) To slowly destroy the internal organs.
(d) To reduce or destroy the sexual appetite.

3. 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) Write down everything they had seen so that the world would know the truth.
(c) See to it that the Nazis were punished for their crimes.
(d) Search for their family members.

4. 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 that same night.
(c) The Russians arrived the next morning.
(d) The Russians arrived five days later.

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

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

7. What physical feature caused Olga to be subjected to ridicule and beatings?
(a) Her naturally thin eyebrows.
(b) Her full bosom.
(c) Her large nose.
(d) Her lopsided ears.

8. After the liberation of Auschwitz, what did the Moscow professor discover in his autopsies of female internees?
(a) Three out of every five died from malnutrition.
(b) Nine out of every ten had a withering of the ovaries.
(c) Sixty percent had arsenic poisoning.
(d) Forty percent had been surgically sterilized.

9. Why could Olga not get a sample of the mysterious powder that was put into the prisoners' food?
(a) The only person allowed to go near the powder was an S.S. woman.
(b) The kitchen worker was too afraid of being caught.
(c) No one knew if the powder actually existed.
(d) She did not know anyone who worked in the kitchens.

10. What news did the French internee share with Olga when he came to the infirmary on August 26, 1944?
(a) "Paris is liberated."
(b) "I know where your husband is."
(c) "Irma Griese is being transferred."
(d) "The camp is to be liquidated."

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

12. Why did the young girl who worked with Olga break into hysterical laughter one day when they entered the morgue?
(a) She saw one of the S.S. bend over and rip his pants.
(b) The pressure and horror of the job had finally taken its toll on her.
(c) She realized that she would soon be one of those corpses piled on the floor.
(d) She saw the body of her mother, whom she had thought was safely hidden.

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

14. How did the Germans decide to exterminate the remaining children in the camp?
(a) They took them into the woods and shot them.
(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 stopped feeding them and left them to die of starvation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the roll calls last on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays?

2. What regulation governed the tattooing of prisoners?

3. What standard did the Germans use to determine which children in the men's camp would be exterminated?

4. What service did Irma Griese demand from the surgeon in the infirmary?

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

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