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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 formula devised by the insane mathematics professor, which was devised to explain the problem of the war, what did the variables X, Y, Z, and V stand for?
(a) Hitler, Himmler, Hess, and Goebbels.
(b) Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Roosevelt.
(c) Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Hitler.
(d) Stalin, Hitler, Mengele, and Griese.

2. What surprised Olga about the four men in sports clothes that she saw at the train station?
(a) They seemed to know the German officer who was in charge.
(b) They all looked exactly alike.
(c) She knew them from Cluj.
(d) They were speaking English.

3. How many women eventually ended up sharing the "apartment" in Barrack 13?
(a) Eight.
(b) Seven.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Ten.

4. Where did most prisoners go after they had been used for Dr. Mengele's experiments?
(a) To the hospital.
(b) They were shipped to another camp.
(c) Right back to their barracks.
(d) To the gas chamber.

5. What were the prisoners who worked outside of the camp forced to do as they marched into and out of camp?
(a) Salute the S.S.
(b) Pull the work wagons.
(c) Carry away dead bodies.
(d) Sing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What part of "Canada" reminded Olga of all the infants that had been murdered by the Germans?

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

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

5. How many corpses did Olga count along the road as they evacuated from Auschwitz?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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