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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 were the two purposes of camp selections?
(a) To select prisoners for the crematory and to locate missing prisoners.
(b) To select some prisoners for the crematory and to decimate the others.
(c) To inventory prisoners and maintain an accurate count.
(d) To select prisoners for work detail and to show off German power.

2. Why did the Stubendiensts surround the prisoners who were chosen for selection?
(a) To give them privacy from the other prisoners.
(b) To pray for them before they were taken to the crematory.
(c) To try to prevent the S.S. from taking them to the crematory.
(d) To prevent them from escaping.

3. From where did the blue-eyed man come?
(a) Poland.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

4. Where did the ambulances take the sick and injured who got off the train?
(a) To another train that returned them to their country.
(b) To the camp barracks.
(c) To the gas chambers.
(d) To the infirmary.

5. What name was given to the barrack's "cages" into which the prisoners were divided?
(a) Arbeit.
(b) Blocova.
(c) Kommandos.
(d) Koias.

Short Answer Questions

1. After they disembarked from the train, who was immediately sent to the left?

2. What ingredient in the bread irritated the prisoners' gums?

3. What time did the infirmary begin to see patients each day?

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

5. How long had the Polish woman, Irka, been in the camp?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was the Zahlappel different from a regular selection?

3. How were the people on the train cars affected by the trip and the inhumane conditions?

4. Why did Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary proceed with their work even though they did not have the proper resources?

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

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

7. What made the roll calls at the camp so difficult to endure?

8. Why did Olga run from the washroom when Tadek entered?

9. What details about their arrival offered the passengers hope that their conditions would be better at the camp?

10. Describe the conditions of the work in the infirmary.

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