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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to many smaller companies as 1948 comes to an end?
(a) They were nationalized.
(b) They are unionized.
(c) They are collectivized.
(d) They are shut-down.

2. Who is Franz?
(a) A Nazi guard who often acts as executioner.
(b) A Nazi guard who occasionally lets prisoners escape.
(c) A man Kovály knows from her old neighborhood.
(d) A Nazi guard who gives food to the camp inmates.

3. What happens to Kovály's mother on arrival at the concentration camp?
(a) She is assigned factory work.
(b) She is redirected to another camp.
(c) She is gassed.
(d) She is shot.

4. In 1941, to which ghetto is Kovály and her family taken?
(a) The Lublin Ghetto.
(b) The Lvóv Ghetto.
(c) The Vilna Ghetto.
(d) The Lodz Ghetto.

5. Which of Kovály's friends promises absolute assistance under any circumstance?
(a) Heda.
(b) Franta.
(c) Marta.
(d) Jenda.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the escaped women able to cross the border out of Nazi Germany?

2. What group of people does Kovály say many industrialists think comprise the workforces during the war?

3. Which of the following does NOT describe Kovály when she arrives at the camp?

4. On one occasion, Kovály discovers the body of an acquaintance covered with what?

5. To which camp is Kovály and her family sent when their ghetto is liquidated?

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