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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Gerda rethink rejecting the offer?
(a) She does not wish to go to a death camp.
(b) Working in Sosnowitz might have been a chance of freedom.
(c) She may has gotten to know Abek better.
(d) She does not wish to be locked up in a camp.

2. What has recently been built just outside of Gerda's hometown?
(a) A church.
(b) A young boys camp.
(c) A new grocery store.
(d) A work camp for women.

3. What is the most dangerous part of the new camp, Grunberg?
(a) The shower/gas chamber.
(b) The barracks; guards attempt to sexually assault the girls.
(c) The fields; prisoners are randomly shot.
(d) Spinnerei (the spinning room).

4. Upon her arrival at Abek's family home, who welcomes Gerda?
(a) Abek's cousins.
(b) Abek's father.
(c) Abek.
(d) Abek's sister and mother.

5. Why do Gerda and her friend spend so much time in the town's graveyard?
(a) They dance on the graves of Germans to defy the Nazis.
(b) They know they will soon be dead.
(c) It is the only outside space not taken over by the Nazis.
(d) They visit the graves of their dead friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the Jewish population is virtually gone?

2. What news crushes Gerda and her family's hopes and dreams?

3. What empowers Gerda now that her parents are gone?

4. Who takes Gerda to see Abek's family?

5. How often are the girls allowed to take showers?

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