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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. Where did Olga and the other women get bread for their journey?
2. How far was the morgue from the hospital?
3. According to the author, why did the Germans keep the insane inmates alive?
4. How many days passed between Olga's arrival in the village and the arrival of the Russian troops?
5. Why did the Germans wait several minutes before they turned on the gas in the gas chambers?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Dr. Mengele differ from Dr. Klein?
2. Why did Irma Griese become angry with Olga?
3. What was the difference between "organization" and "theft"?
4. How did Olga and her friends escape from the ranks of prisoners during the march?
5. In what ways were the inmates in the Czech camp given preferential treatment?
6. How were the S.S. at Auschwitz affected by the news that Paris had been liberated?
7. Why did Olga still have faith in mankind, despite her tragic experience?
8. What experiences did the author have with the commander-in-chief of the camp, Joseph Kramer?
9. What metaphor did Olga use to describe the "scientific experiments" that the Nazis performed on prisoners?
10. How were the internees 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
Why did the author find the treatment of the children in the Nazi camps particularly disturbing? What made the treatment and the murder of the children more horrific in her mind?
Essay Topic 2
How did having a purpose change the author's attitude toward her captivity? How did it contribute to her survival?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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