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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the family get food?
(a) They can only buy it on the black market.
(b) They still have rations for the government.
(c) A friend brings them food every week.
(d) They go to the store.

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

3. What is Gerda sorry about missing?
(a) An experience with a boy.
(b) All of her friends.
(c) The life that a woman her age should have.
(d) Her brother's presence.

4. Once girls begin losing their monthly periods, what does Gerda long for?
(a) The ability to have a baby.
(b) To see her family.
(c) A claim to her womanhood and femininity.
(d) To date a boy.

5. What do some Jewish parents do to avoid Auschwitz?
(a) Shoot themselves in the head.
(b) Kill Nazis in protest.
(c) Poison themselves and their families.
(d) Go to Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is special about the last letter they receive in the chapter?

2. What has recently been built just outside of Gerda's hometown?

3. What do Helene and Julius give Gerda for her birthday?

4. Upon her arrival at Abek's family home, who welcomes Gerda?

5. Who does Gerda keep her fears away from?

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