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

2. How many women were in the march that left from Birkenau with Olga?
(a) Two thousand.
(b) Six thousand.
(c) Ten thousand.
(d) Fifteen thousand.

3. What part of "Canada" reminded Olga of all the infants that had been murdered by the Germans?
(a) A collection of baby bottles.
(b) A row of baby carriages.
(c) The boxes of baby shoes.
(d) A pile of family photos.

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

5. Through the underground, Olga discovered that her husband was working where?
(a) In the hospital at Belsen.
(b) In "Canada."
(c) In the camp at Buna.
(d) In the crematory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the weather like when Olga and the rest of her camp were evacuated from Auschwitz?

2. How old was Irma Griese?

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

4. After June of 1943, how were most Aryans executed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How were the internees at Auschwitz affected by the news that Paris had been liberated?

6. 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..."?

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

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

9. What purpose did the building known as "Canada" serve, both for the Germans and for the inmates?

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

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