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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the women who shoveled snow at Augsburg find?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Money.

2. In June, what work do the guards assign Elli and her mother?
(a) Assembling guns.
(b) Sewing blankets.
(c) Leveling a hillside.
(d) Cleaning clothes.

3. What happens the day the food arrives early at Laura and Elli's work?
(a) The food turns cold.
(b) Animals eat the food.
(c) The food becomes putrid in the hot sun.
(d) Other prisoners steal the food.

4. After the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what happens as the prisoners stand outside the cars?
(a) Trains crash.
(b) SS soldiers run away.
(c) Gunfire erupts.
(d) Bombs drop.

5. Immediately following their freedom, how does a man who spoke Yiddish help?
(a) He translates for the passengers.
(b) He gives the passengers food.
(c) He relays doctors' orders to the passengers.
(d) He brings the passengers clothing.

6. When women strip for guards, what is the one possession they retain?
(a) Their underwear.
(b) Their shoes.
(c) Their blankets.
(d) Their socks.

7. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz for the second time, what does Laura continually tell Elli?
(a) Elli should find Bubi.
(b) To get her water.
(c) She can't go on.
(d) To survive.

8. At the Muhldorf train station, Elli and Laura lose sight of whom?
(a) Each other.
(b) The SS guards.
(c) Aunt Celia.
(d) Bubi.

9. After the war, what do the three vow?
(a) Always to save money.
(b) Never to marry.
(c) Never to separate.
(d) Always to pray.

10. At Waldlager, when does Bubi begin talking?
(a) After Elli helps him by giving him bread.
(b) When Elli speaks of their father.
(c) After the guards disappear.
(d) When Laura brings him soup.

11. What is Laura's assignment at Waldlager?
(a) Organizing clothes.
(b) Working in the kitchen.
(c) Scrubbing the floors.
(d) Cleaning the stables.

12. What is Elli's punishment for retrieving her coat?
(a) Running in the snow.
(b) Kneeling on uncooked rice for an hour.
(c) Standing in a hall all day without water or food.
(d) Scrubbing bathroom floors.

13. The women learn that the civilians killed earlier were part of ___________.
(a) A movement for more food.
(b) A plan to liberate the inmates.
(c) An undercover reporter's investigation.
(d) A plan to steal from the factories.

14. When do Elli, Laura, and Bubi begin making the trip home?
(a) Winter of 1946.
(b) 1944.
(c) Fall of 1945.
(d) June of 1945.

15. At what point does Elli say she is a true concentration camp inmate?
(a) When a friend dies.
(b) At seven and a half weeks.
(c) After a month.
(d) The first day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Scheidel bring Elli?

2. A local woman thinks that Elli is __________years old.

3. After Elli returns from her punishment for retrieving her coat, how do Elli and Laura react to the day's events?

4. Later, after she has the clothes for a bit, how does Elli feel in her new clothes she receives at Augsburg?

5. Where does Bubi receive permission to attend school after the war?

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