View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the women want according to Sara in Chapter 37?

2. What did Sara refuse to do according to Chapter 37?

3. Who told Sara and her group that they would soon receive Red Cross food?

4. What does the Editor argue prisoners in concentration camp relied on when telling their story?

5. What did the Russian soldiers find for Sara and her group?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Sara do on April 30 1945 when the SS decided to evacuate them?

2. Who was hung at the gates at the end of October 1944 and why?

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

4. What were concentration camp prisoners denied based on the afterword?

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

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

7. What tradition did Sara write in according to the editor?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In late 1944, the gassing of prisoners at Auschwitz had stopped, which according to "Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land", was a result of the Russians threatening the Germans with the same fate. Discuss whether or not this was true and analyze what this says about the influence of the Russians and the character of the Germans. Use the text to support your analysis.

Essay Topic 2

Sara reflected on the symbolism behind the term "Auschwitz," which came to represent devastation in the minds of those who lived and died at the concentration camp. Those who lived there were drawn into a criminal, amoral logic. Students should discuss why it represented devastation for those who lived and died at the camp, as well as discuss examples of this amoral logic and conclude whether it was amoral logic or just survival of the fittest. Students should use the text and secondary sources to support their discussion.

Essay Topic 3

Much of our knowledge about the Holocaust, including the experience of Ravensbruck, came from the women who inmates who drew pictures or wrote on scraps of paper of their experiences. Women documented their experiences at extreme personal risk. Discuss the significance of their actions on our knowledge of the camp and their experience with that of the staged photos by the SS to deceive the Red Cross. Use the text and secondary sources to support your discussion of the documentation of personal experience.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 914 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample