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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the women want according to Sara in Chapter 37?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Food.
(c) Clean clothes.
(d) Water.

2. What newspaper did Orli give Sara and her friends?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) Goebbels.
(c) The Pravda.
(d) The New York Times.

3. What does Sara's story stimulate the Reader to do according to the Editor?
(a) Learn about her.
(b) Learn more about the Holocaust.
(c) Think on complex issues.
(d) Think about the Jewish faith.

4. Who told Sara and her group that they would soon receive Red Cross food?
(a) Mrs. Helena.
(b) Mila.
(c) Wierka.
(d) Orli.

5. What does Sara say she did not know how to handle in Chapter 39?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Food.
(d) Attention.

6. What style does Sara use to tell her story according to the Editor?
(a) Short stories.
(b) Yiddish folktales.
(c) TV scripts.
(d) Humor.

7. How many rabbis does Sara say were brought into the camp in Chapter 27?
(a) 150.
(b) 250.
(c) 160.
(d) 100.

8. Where was Mala's boyfriend's corpse hung?
(a) On the gate.
(b) Next to the woman's camp.
(c) Near his block.
(d) In Sara's block.

9. What did the Editor argue concentration camp denied prisoners?
(a) The ability to organize their lives.
(b) Warm accommodations.
(c) Food.
(d) Freedom.

10. What does Sara say filled the open space of the camp the previous New Year?
(a) Singing and drunk Germans.
(b) Snow.
(c) German civilians.
(d) Dead prisoners.

11. Where does Sara say Mala was from?
(a) Poland.
(b) Belgium.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

12. What does Sara say many believed about the world after the defeat of the Germans?
(a) They would not live to see it.
(b) Zion would be theirs.
(c) It would come to an end.
(d) It would begin anew.

13. What were the infirmary workers forced to do in Chapter 26?
(a) Save Mala's life.
(b) Experiment on Mala.
(c) Kill Mala with an injection.
(d) Kill Mala's boyfriend with an injection.

14. What does the Editor argue prisoners in concentration camps were lacking?
(a) Psychological props.
(b) Water.
(c) Physical support.
(d) Food.

15. What does the Editor argue Sara tried to do in writing her story?
(a) Make the reality of Auschwitz believable.
(b) Cast her demons away.
(c) Make sure the memory survives her.
(d) Put it behind her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were Mala and her boyfriend returned?

2. What did Sara find on the road she was traveling on?

3. What does the Editor say Sara represented in the book?

4. Whose speech was printed in the news paper Orli gave Sara and the others?

5. What does Sara say ultimately happened to Mala?

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