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

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. According to Olga, what did the word "organize" come to mean among the prisoners?
(a) Spy.
(b) Steal.
(c) Brotherhood.
(d) Pass information.

4. What plan did Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary devise in order to save pregnant mothers?
(a) They found a sympathetic officer who sneaked the babies out of the camp and into nearby orphanages.
(b) They killed the babies before they cried and passed them off as stillborn.
(c) They hid the mothers and their babies after birth.
(d) They sneaked the mother out of camp before she gave birth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Through the underground, Olga discovered that her husband was working where?

2. Where was the "American camp" to which the German officer ordered the four American men to be taken?

3. Why could Olga not get a sample of the mysterious powder that was put into the prisoners' food?

4. What did the Germans plan to do with the patients who were left behind when the camp evacuated?

5. What ailments produced as much as 30 percent of the infirmary's visits?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Olga still have faith in mankind, despite her tragic experience?

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

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

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

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

6. How did Olga's colleague, Dr. G, cope with the stress of living in camp?

7. How did prostitution emerge in the camp?

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

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

10. How did the Russian, Dr. Mitrovna, save Olga's life?

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