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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. What sign did Olga wear to indicate her participation in the resistance?
(a) A silk string around her throat.
(b) A black armband.
(c) A pink hair ribbon.
(d) A piece of twine around her wrist.

2. Why did Joseph Kramer arrange an unexpected concert for the prisoners in Auschwitz?
(a) He was rewarding the prisoners for good behavior.
(b) It was a show for Red Cross officials who were surveying the camp's conditions.
(c) For a propaganda film showing the good treatment the prisoners received.
(d) Olga was not sure, but it made her nervous.

3. What did the Germans plan to do with the patients who were left behind when the camp evacuated?
(a) March them along the road in a separate group.
(b) Load them into wagons to be evacuated.
(c) Leave them behind for the Russians to deal with.
(d) Exterminate them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did L. come to the infirmary so often?

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

4. What gift did L. give to Olga and the other members of the infirmary staff?

5. What did Irma Griese forbid Olga to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did prostitution emerge in the camp?

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