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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind act do the doctors of the hospital do for Gerda?
(a) The doctors give Gerda extra money for working for them.
(b) Pay for her train ticket to Munich.
(c) Perform her wedding ceremony to Kurt.
(d) Treat her for no money.

2. What are the rumors surrounding the camp about Poland?
(a) The war will soon be over.
(b) America has been taken over by the Germans.
(c) The Nazis have won.
(d) The Russians have taken control of Poland.

3. On the walk, Gerda is called out by a guard. Gerda thinks she will be shot, but what must she really do?
(a) Threaten other girls to keep going.
(b) Move dead bodies.
(c) Be put in the sick car.
(d) Carry other girls.

4. How does Abek look when Gerda is finally allowed to see him?
(a) Pale and weak.
(b) Strong.
(c) Depressed and sad.
(d) Very happy because he is near her.

5. What does Gerda have to completely relearn?
(a) Moving her arms.
(b) How to walk.
(c) Moving her feet.
(d) How to breathe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the girls forced to travel to the next camp?

2. How does Gerda spend her "free time" at the new camp?

3. After the war, what does Gerda do with her life?

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?

5. How is Abek allowed to see Gerda?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the senior Jewess of Gerda's camp area?

2. What part of Gerda's body has been the most affected by frostbite?

3. After Ilse's death, what is the next town the girls stop in?

4. How does Gerda honor the memories of those that did not make it out of the Holocaust?

5. Finally, after marching, where do the girls arrive?

6. What does Gerda learn to guard as time goes on?

7. In order to crush the girls' spirits what does the new camp director tell them?

8. How is Abek able to eventually see Gerda?

9. When they are forced to move, where must the girls go and must they travel there?

10. Why does Gerda begin to convulse after arriving at the Red Cross hospital?

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