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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. How many women from the infirmary had the task of carrying corpses from the hospital to the morgue?

2. What standard did the Germans use to determine which children in the men's camp would be exterminated?

3. Why were pregnancies sometimes hard to catch in the initial selection at the station?

4. After the liberation of Auschwitz, what did the Moscow professor discover in his autopsies of female internees?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Olga say, "I could never decide whether it was harder to dig ditches next to the crematory or work near the railroad station..."?

5. In what ways were the inmates in the Czech camp given preferential treatment?

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

7. What examples did Olga offer to illustrate the emotional strength of some prisoners?

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

9. How did the Germans use work assignments to break the spirits of the prisoners?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to the author, what were some misconceptions that observers had about the operations and conditions in the camps, and how did the author clear up those misconceptions?

Essay Topic 2

How were religious leaders treated in the camp? How did the conditions of the camp affect their religious beliefs? How were other prisoners affected by the examples of these religious leaders?

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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