I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Pages 12-34

1. What is the setting as the story opens?

2. How old is Elli as the story opens?

3. At the start of the book, how does Elli spend her days?

4. Where do Bonnie and Elli go to swim?

5. What purpose does the river in town often serve?

6. How does Laura demonstrate affection?

7. Why does Elli believe her mother slights her?

8. Elli thinks her mother's favorite child is _______________.

9. How does Elli work in school?

10. How does Bubbi attain good grades in school?

11. Why does Elli's father think ambition is a desirable trait?

12. At the start of the book, why do...
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