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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gerda sorry about missing?
(a) Her brother's presence.
(b) The life that a woman her age should have.
(c) All of her friends.
(d) An experience with a boy.

2. Why do Gerda and her friend spend so much time in the town's graveyard?
(a) They know they will soon be dead.
(b) They dance on the graves of Germans to defy the Nazis.
(c) It is the only outside space not taken over by the Nazis.
(d) They visit the graves of their dead friends.

3. How does Gerda turn down the offer?
(a) She is dragged back to her camp.
(b) She says the officers at her camp will not let her stay.
(c) She insults Abek's mother.
(d) She takes the offer.

4. One day someone throws the girl in front of Gerda a piece of bread. A guard sees the girl pick up the bread and starts interrogating everyone around her. Why is Gerda beaten by the guard?
(a) Gerda kicks the guard for threatening the girl.
(b) She is not beaten.
(c) Because Gerda does not know who threw the bread.
(d) Gerda stands up for the girl.

5. What do Gerda and Helene do to make money?
(a) Knit apparel.
(b) Create paintings.
(c) Make buttons.
(d) Make hats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Germans decide to take from Gerda's friend, Ilse?

2. Does Gerda wish to work at a factory for the rest of her life?

3. How does the family get food?

4. How many Jews are left in Gerda's village?

5. As time goes by, Abek's state of mind is _____________.

(see the answer key)

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