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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. After the liberation of Auschwitz, what did the Moscow professor discover in his autopsies of female internees?
(a) Sixty percent had arsenic poisoning.
(b) Three out of every five died from malnutrition.
(c) Forty percent had been surgically sterilized.
(d) Nine out of every ten had a withering of the ovaries.

2. According to the author, which of the experimental stations was the "most jealously guarded" of them all?
(a) The radiological station.
(b) The psychiatric station.
(c) The artificial insemination station.
(d) The vivisection station.

3. How much did Olga pay in order to buy a piece of cloth and have a nurse's blouse made?
(a) Three days of margarine and bread.
(b) Eight days' ration of bread and three soups.
(c) All of her tea for a week.
(d) Eight days of bread.

4. 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) About 24,000.
(c) 360,000.
(d) 17,280.

5. How long did the roll calls last on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays?
(a) Until lunch time.
(b) From sunup to sundown.
(c) For over six hours.
(d) From dawn until the end of the afternoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Irma Griese forbid Olga to do?

2. According to Olga, what did the word "organize" come to mean among the prisoners?

3. How old was Irma Griese?

4. Where did the prisoners hide their "pinklys" during roll call?

5. What sign did Olga wear to indicate her participation in the resistance?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What was the difference between "organization" and "theft"?

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