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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 the Nazis do with all of the documents they removed from the "political bureau"?

2. Through the underground, Olga discovered that her husband was working where?

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

4. What did Dr. Klein bring for Olga while she and the other inmates were kneeling in the mud?

5. What was the "astonishing question" that Irma Griese asked Olga?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Russian, Dr. Mitrovna, save Olga's life?

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

3. How did the Germans react to an unusually low report of pregnancies among the women inmates?

4. Why did some prisoners throw themselves into the electrified wire?

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

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

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

8. Why did Olga still have faith in mankind, despite her tragic experience?

9. Describe Olga's second, and last, meeting with her husband.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the social structure and hierarchy (both formal and informal) among the prisoners in the concentration camp. How was this structure different from their previous lives, and how did this subversion of their lives create ironic situations?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the problems presented to the author and others in the camp because of pregnancy and childbirth. How did they deal with the dilemma? Why did they take the risks?

Essay Topic 3

Why did some prisoners survive while others did not? What qualities seemed to enable some prisoners to survive? To what extremes did some inmates resort, and how did these actions affect them?

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