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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time did the infirmary begin to see patients each day?
(a) Five o'clock in the morning.
(b) Four o'clock in the morning.
(c) Seven o'clock in the morning.
(d) Six o'clock in the morning.

2. How was Dr. Klein different from the other S.S.?
(a) He took the time to get to know each one of his patients.
(b) He did not yell and he had nice manners.
(c) He sympathized with the prisoners and gave them news about the war.
(d) He had dark hair and dark eyes.

3. Why did Madga, at first, refuse to attempt escape?
(a) She did not want to leave her mother, who was also in the circle.
(b) She was tired of living and had resigned herself to death.
(c) She was too frightened to move out of the circle.
(d) She did not believe in the crematory and thought they would go somewhere better.

4. How many women worked in the kitchen staff?
(a) Almost one hundred.
(b) About three hundred.
(c) About four hundred.
(d) About forty.

5. Other than for eating, of what use were the twenty bowls issued to the prisoners in the barracks?
(a) Digging latrines.
(b) Weapons during fights.
(c) Chamber pots.
(d) Collecting rain water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the "most tragic danger" for the sick in the camp?

2. What "presents" did Tadek, the blue-eyed man, give to Olga?

3. What illness afflicted the children who were lying near the door of the train car?

4. What advice did the handsome German prisoner have for Olga when she was looking for her son?

5. How many people within the barracks had to share a single blanket?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Olga relate the sensation of thirst to her memories of the concentration camp?

2. Why did the Germans allow the prisoners to write postcards to their loved ones outside of the camps?

3. Describe the hierarchy of the prisoners in the camp.

4. What did the barrack chief, Irka, explain after Olga suggested that she had hope for survival?

5. Why did Tadek give Olga a potato and a shawl?

6. How did Olga react to her first sight of the women inside the camp?

7. What were the conditions like in Olga's barracks?

8. What went on in the washroom during the rest hour?

9. How did Dr. and Mrs. Lengyel respond to the stories they heard about the cruelty of the Germans and their treatment of prisoners?

10. How did the German soldiers react to the passengers on the train cars?

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