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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. How far was the morgue from the hospital?
(a) Ten minutes.
(b) Over an hour's walk.
(c) A half-hour's walk.
(d) Forty minutes.

2. How much did Olga pay in order to buy a piece of cloth and have a nurse's blouse made?
(a) All of her tea for a week.
(b) Eight days' ration of bread and three soups.
(c) Three days of margarine and bread.
(d) Eight days of bread.

3. How many women were saved from death on the day that Dr. Klein sent them out of the washroom?
(a) Fifty-four.
(b) Seventy-six.
(c) Thirty-one.
(d) Forty-two.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Olga's husband die?

2. What gift did L. give to Olga and the other members of the infirmary staff?

3. One day in June of 1944, where did Irma Griese send the 315 women who were "selected"?

4. How did the Germans decide to exterminate the remaining children in the camp?

5. What happened when a woman gave birth in the concentration camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did L. give Olga a reason to live?

2. Why did Olga and her colleagues begin to murder newborn babies?

3. Why does Olga say, "I could never decide whether it was harder to dig ditches next to the crematory or work near the railroad station..."?

4. What observations did Olga make about the effects of the first weeks in camp upon new internees?

5. Why did some prisoners throw themselves into the electrified wire?

6. What experiences did the author have with the commander-in-chief of the camp, Joseph Kramer?

7. What evidence suggested to Olga that Dr. Klein had some compassion?

8. What steps did the Nazis take in order to reassure the newly arrived deportees that their lives in the camp would be bearable?

9. How did Olga and her companions find renewed energy by stealing bread from the warehouse?

10. How did Olga and her friends escape from the ranks of prisoners during the march?

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