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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Olga pick up from the ground that helped her escape from the group of prisoners headed for the gas chamber?

2. What sign, posted in the camp, assured prisoners that they would be put to work?

3. Why did Olga renounce her privilege to write postcards to loved ones outside of the camp?

4. How did the children in the camp speak about the goings-on of the camp?

5. What room became the "apartment" for Olga and her colleagues in the infirmary?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the German guards intentionally assign prisoners to work for which they were unsuited?

2. Why did the Germans allow the prisoners to write postcards to their loved ones outside of the camps?

3. Why did Olga run from the washroom when Tadek entered?

4. What made the roll calls at the camp so difficult to endure?

5. How did Dr. and Mrs. Lengyel respond to the stories they heard about the cruelty of the Germans and their treatment of prisoners?

6. How did the Germans attempt to create animosity among the prisoners?

7. What struck Olga about the treatment of the young girls in the camp?

8. Why did Tadek give Olga a potato and a shawl?

9. How did the German soldiers react to the passengers on the train cars?

10. What dilemma did Olga face whenever her companions argued about the existence of the crematories?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How was the author able to maintain her positive perspective on human nature despite the horrific ordeals she had experienced and witnessed?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the role of choice versus luck in the author's ability to survive her ordeal. How much of her survival was a result of the choices that she made, and how much of her survival was the result of luck?

Essay Topic 3

The author repeatedly talks about the "efficiency" of the Nazis in "liquidating" their prisoners. Describe the industrialization of extermination by the Nazis. What does such efficiency suggest about the people who were responsible for such decisions?

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