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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 happened to the prisoners who drank stagnant water from the puddles?

2. How long after their arrival did Olga and her fellow prisoners receive their first morning meal?

3. How many people were loaded into Olga's train car?

4. How did Olga become a "rich woman" in the camp?

5. According to the German major who stayed with the Lengyel family, why did his family complain whenever he returned home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Olga and her husband react to meeting each other within the camp?

2. What were the conditions like in Olga's barracks?

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

4. Why did Olga relate the sensation of thirst to her memories of the concentration camp?

5. How did Olga come to work in the infirmary?

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

7. How were the people on the train cars affected by the trip and the inhumane conditions?

8. How was the Zahlappel different from a regular selection?

9. What did the barrack chief, Irka, explain after Olga suggested that she had hope for survival?

10. How did Olga's life in the infirmary compare to the life she was previously leading in the camp?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to the author, why is the entire world responsible for the atrocities that the Nazis committed? How does the blame of other countries compare to Germany's blame? What must the world do in order to make amends for its mistakes of World War II?

Essay Topic 2

What methods did the Nazis use to control their victims at different stages of their deportation, imprisonment, and extermination? How did the reactions of the deportees and prisoners enable the Nazis to succeed in their work?

Essay Topic 3

How did the idea of medical care (in particular, the oath to "do no harm") become subverted in the Nazi concentration camps?

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