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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 did the SS do with Mala after her short stay at the hospital?
(a) Put her back in her block.
(b) Let her rot in the mud.
(c) Brought her to the gas chamber.
(d) Buried her.

2. Who did Mengele bring to the infirmary in November according to Sara in Chapter 31?
(a) Old men.
(b) Children.
(c) Old and infirm women.
(d) Young women.

3. What does the editors say some Jewish people struggle with?
(a) Survivors guilt.
(b) Life.
(c) Freedom.
(d) The history of the Holocaust.

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

5. Who did the resistance arrange for Hans to do?
(a) Be captured.
(b) Infiltrate the camp as a guard.
(c) Work near the Infirmary.
(d) Infiltrate the camp as a prisoner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sara say the prisoners started singing at midnight on New Years Eve 1944?

2. What does Sara's story stimulate the Reader to do according to the Editor?

3. When were Mala and her boyfriend caught after their escape?

4. What does the Editor say of Fela's values in the Editor's Afterword?

5. What awoke the infirmary workers two weeks after the New Year?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the women's digestive systems rebel against the food from the Red Cross?

2. Why did the sirens sound in Auschwitz the fall of 1944?

3. What did Sara and other survivors draw on according to the editor?

4. What did Irena try to encourage the women to do according to Sara in Chapter 30?

5. What did Dr. Koenig and the SS men want when they arrived at the infirmary?

6. What was the story Mrs. Helena shared with Sara and the other infirmary workers?

7. Why did Sara and her friends discover it would be dangerous to stay in the haystacks in Chapter 39?

8. What did an SS man tell Sara and others and what did Sara do in Chapter 36?

9. What did the editor say the Holocaust witnesses had trouble with?

10. Who was Mrs. Helena and when did she and Sara meet?

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