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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. According to the author, how many corpses were burned each day at Bireknau between the crematory ovens and the death pits?
(a) Over 8,000.
(b) 360,000.
(c) 17,280.
(d) About 24,000.

2. According to camp gossip, what was the purpose of the powder that was mixed into the inmates' food?
(a) To cause degeneration of the brain.
(b) To slowly destroy the internal organs.
(c) To cause anemia.
(d) To reduce or destroy the sexual appetite.

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

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

5. How did Olga escape from the rope that bound her to the cart?
(a) She gnawed through them with her teeth.
(b) She worked her hands loose by pulling and stretching the rope.
(c) She used a knife that she had hidden in her skirt.
(d) She rubbed the rope back and forth against the wood on the cart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What service did Irma Griese demand from the surgeon in the infirmary?

2. What news did the French internee share with Olga when he came to the infirmary on August 26, 1944?

3. What did Irma Griese do to the handsome Georgian's Polish lover?

4. Why did the German guard beat the woman he accused of not being a "correct" prisoner?

5. What did Olga and her friend trade for a bit of plazki?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the conditions in camp reveal a person's true nature?

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

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

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

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

7. Why did Irma Griese become angry with Olga?

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

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

10. How were the S.S. at Auschwitz affected by the news that Paris had been liberated?

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