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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 many corpses did Olga count along the road as they evacuated from Auschwitz?
(a) 119.
(b) 321.
(c) 89.
(d) 298.

2. What did the Nazis do with all of the documents they removed from the "political bureau"?
(a) They burned them.
(b) They loaded them into briefcases and locked the latches.
(c) They threw them into boxes and then into the back of a truck.
(d) They dumped them into the latrine.

3. What service did Irma Griese demand from the surgeon in the infirmary?
(a) An appendectomy.
(b) The removal of a mole.
(c) The removal of a bunion.
(d) An abortion.

4. What ailments produced as much as 30 percent of the infirmary's visits?
(a) Scarlet fever and diarrhea.
(b) Skin disorders and anemia.
(c) Malnutrition and pregnancies.
(d) Malnutrition and epidemics.

5. Why were pregnancies sometimes hard to catch in the initial selection at the station?
(a) The German officers did not always pay close attention to details.
(b) They were difficult to miss because there were so many people at the station.
(c) Out of fear, many women tried to hide their pregnancies.
(d) Many women wore several layers of clothing, hoping to be able to keep them all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Dr. Mengele's two favorite studies?

2. What plan did Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary devise in order to save pregnant mothers?

3. What was distributed to internees as they entered the gas chamber that helped to convince them that they were actually headed for the showers?

4. What did Olga and her bunk mates have for a "farewell supper" when she left Block 26 to go to Block 13?

5. What was the "astonishing question" that Irma Griese asked Olga?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Irma Griese become angry with Olga?

2. In what ways were the inmates in the Czech camp given preferential treatment?

3. How did the Germans use work assignments to break the spirits of the prisoners?

4. How did prostitution emerge in the camp?

5. Describe Olga's second, and last, meeting with her husband.

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

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

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

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

10. 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..."?

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