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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. Where does Bubi receive permission to attend school after the war?
(a) Paris.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Palestine.
(d) New York.

2. When an SS guard arrives at Augsburg, what happens to women's food?
(a) It stops being served.
(b) It remains unchanged.
(c) It is downgraded.
(d) It becomes better.

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

4. What time do Elli and Laura take a daily lunch break?
(a) They never receive a lunch break.
(b) 1:30 p.m.
(c) 11:00 a.m.
(d) Noon.

5. When the prisoners leaves the cars for the final time, what do the local people do?
(a) Give them aid.
(b) Run from them.
(c) Push the train cars away.
(d) Take them home.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the Muhldorf train station, Elli and Laura lose sight of whom?

2. On the night of Laura's injury at Auschwitz, what does Elli do?

3. How does Laura make a lamp for the Sabbath at Augsburg?

4. What do the local people say concerning the concentration camps?

5. When Elli returns from her punishment for retrieving her coat, what has her mother done?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Elli want to sing the American national anthem when she arrives at the Statue of Liberty?

2. What do the women's sleeping arrangements at Auschwitz demonstrate about their treatment?

3. Why does Elli jump on the guard's back?

4. How does Laura's life change after the liberation?

5. Why do other women help Elli with her mother?

6. What are Elli's confused feelings when the women learn about the attempted uprising?

7. At first, how do the military guards treat the women, and how do the women respond at Augsburg?

8. Why does Elli feel so different about her town after the war?

9. What would lead the local woman to believe Elli is "sixty or sixty-two" years old?

10. What are the prisoners reactions to the gunfire and planes in "It's An American Plane"?

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