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

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

3. What brought Olga's husband satisfaction in his job at the camp?
(a) Knowing that Olga would be proud of his work.
(b) Knowing that the end of the war was near and the Nazis would pay.
(c) Being able to ease the suffering of so many internees.
(d) Helping to further the resistance.

4. After June of 1943, how were most Aryans executed?
(a) The gas chamber or firing squad.
(b) Shooting, hanging, or poison injections.
(c) Most were worked to death.
(d) Firing squad only.

5. Why did L. come to the infirmary so often?
(a) He was lonely for company.
(b) He was trying to avoid the work he had been assigned to do.
(c) He had a bad wound on his foot.
(d) He was looking for someone to give him some food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between May and the end of July of 1944, how many people were executed at Auschwitz-Birkenau?

2. Which group in the camp were allowed to receive (for a while) packages from home?

3. How many women were in the march that left from Birkenau with Olga?

4. How many women were saved from death on the day that Dr. Klein sent them out of the washroom?

5. Where did most prisoners go after they had been used for Dr. Mengele's experiments?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did the Germans react to an unusually low report of pregnancies among the women inmates?

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

6. What examples did Olga offer to illustrate the emotional strength of some prisoners?

7. What metaphor did Olga use to describe the "scientific experiments" that the Nazis performed on prisoners?

8. How did the camp change as the end of the war neared?

9. How did Dr. Mengele differ from Dr. Klein?

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

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