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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/who disappeared from the camp in November of 1944?

2. What was the weather like when Olga and the rest of her camp were evacuated from Auschwitz?

3. What happened when a woman gave birth in the concentration camp?

4. What regulation governed the tattooing of prisoners?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What experiences did the author have with the commander-in-chief of the camp, Joseph Kramer?

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

8. How did the conditions in camp reveal a person's true nature?

9. How did Olga and her companions find renewed energy by stealing bread from the warehouse?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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