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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the person who recognizes Gemma in the photograph, what did she have with her at the camp?
(a) A baby.
(b) A harmonica.
(c) A photo album.
(d) A religious book.

2. What does Becca note about Gemma's Sleeping Beauty version in Chapter 12?
(a) It is much longer than the traditional story.
(b) It doesn't end happily like the traditional story.
(c) It does not have the magical elements found in the traditional story.
(d) There are more characters in the traditional story.

3. Where will Becca stay for a night while in Oswego?
(a) At Stan's friend's house.
(b) In a motel.
(c) In her car.
(d) At a relative's house.

4. What does Becca realize about the ring in Chapter 24?
(a) It belonged to Gemma's father.
(b) It belonged to a Nazi.
(c) It belonged to Josef.
(d) It belonged to Gemma's first love.

5. What shocked Marge about the refugee camp upon first sight?
(a) The barbed wire and bare barracks.
(b) The size of the camp.
(c) The lack of sanitation facilities.
(d) The stench.

6. What do Becca and Stan do for lunch on their way to Oswego?
(a) They go through a drive-thru.
(b) They eat packed lunches in the car.
(c) They stop and have a picnic.
(d) They go to a nice sitdown restaurant.

7. What does Gemma do for Becca before continuing her story in Chapter 19?
(a) She helps her brush her teeth.
(b) She gets her a snack.
(c) She gets her a blanket.
(d) She draws her a bath.

8. What type of tree does the prince walk along in Chapter 21?
(a) Birch.
(b) Willow tree.
(c) Maple tree.
(d) Spruce tree.

9. What does Becca point out to her father that Gemma did not have in Chapter 14?
(a) Proof of her voyage to America.
(b) A marriage band.
(c) A tattoo indicating that she had been in a camp.
(d) A birth certificate.

10. Who meets Becca at the airport in Chapter 18?
(a) A tour guide.
(b) Magda.
(c) No one.
(d) Wanda.

11. What is Josef's last name?
(a) Potocki.
(b) Pinsky.
(c) Pawlak.
(d) Paszkiewicz.

12. Who is Harvey Goldman?
(a) The mayor of Oswego.
(b) Becca's maternal grandfather.
(c) A refugee interred in the refugee camp in Oswego.
(d) Gemma's first love.

13. Who is Wanda?
(a) Magda's aunt.
(b) A tour guide.
(c) A reporter from the local newspaper.
(d) Becca's friend.

14. What is Kulmhof?
(a) A camp where the only purpose is extermination.
(b) A slang term used by those in the concentration camps.
(c) The neighborhood where Gemma grew up.
(d) A village where Gemma hid during the war.

15. Who is Josef?
(a) A historian who met Gemma once.
(b) An old friend of Gemma's who remained in contact with her until her death.
(c) A man from Germany who fled the country before the war began.
(d) A partisan in the war who will share what he knows with Becca.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Becca and Magda find that tells them about the concentration camp in Chelmo?

2. What do Becca's parents think of her travel plans in Chapter 16?

3. What does Becca spend her first day in Poland doing?

4. Who is Samantha?

5. According to information given to Becca in Chapter 12, how did the men feel about Gemma in the camp?

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