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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 June of 1943, how were most Aryans executed?
(a) The gas chamber or firing squad.
(b) Firing squad only.
(c) Most were worked to death.
(d) Shooting, hanging, or poison injections.

2. What was the weather like when Olga and the rest of her camp were evacuated from Auschwitz?
(a) Sunny and mild.
(b) Windy and freezing cold.
(c) Blistering hot and humid.
(d) Crisp and cool.

3. Why did the young girl who worked with Olga break into hysterical laughter one day when they entered the morgue?
(a) She saw the body of her mother, whom she had thought was safely hidden.
(b) She saw one of the S.S. bend over and rip his pants.
(c) The pressure and horror of the job had finally taken its toll on her.
(d) She realized that she would soon be one of those corpses piled on the floor.

4. Where did Olga and the other women get bread for their journey?
(a) It was distributed to each inmate for the journey.
(b) They had been saving it for an emergency.
(c) People from the men's camp gave them some before they left.
(d) They smashed in the warehouse door and took the bread.

5. Why did the Germans wait several minutes before they turned on the gas in the gas chambers?
(a) They had to wait for the proper official to arrive and give the order.
(b) They let the temperature rise a few degrees to help the gas work better.
(c) They wanted the prisoners to panic before they died.
(d) They waited to be sure that no more prisoners could fit into the room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did L. say that he and Olga must both do after the war?

2. What/who disappeared from the camp in November of 1944?

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

4. What did the Nazis do with all of the documents they removed from the "political bureau"?

5. Why was Olga uneasy when the French internee came to the infirmary on August 26, 1944?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence suggested to Olga that Dr. Klein had some compassion?

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 was the difference between "organization" and "theft"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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