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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What saves Gerda at Grunberg?
(a) Ilse helps her stay sane.
(b) She makes plays to keep herself sane.
(c) She gets to log inventory, which is not a hard labor job.
(d) She is able to sew and not do hard labor.

2. After the war, what does Gerda do with her life?
(a) She becomes an author.
(b) She becomes a housewife and a mother.
(c) She becomes a lecturer and an author.
(d) She becomes a teacher.

3. Why does Frau Kugler make a very sick Gerda go to work one day?
(a) She wants Gerda to suffer.
(b) To prove she is well. Sick prisoners would go to Auschwitz.
(c) Frau Kugler wants to prove that she is strong and mean.
(d) She is cruel.

4. To Gerda's surprise and joy, who is at the new camp?
(a) Her mother and father.
(b) Her friend Erika.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Frau Kugler, Mrs. Berger, Suse, and many of the other girls from Bolkenhain.

5. What do the girls pray for every night?
(a) That the English will bomb the Germans.
(b) Their lives to return back to normal.
(c) Survival.
(d) More food and water.

6. Why does Gerda begin to convulse in the hospital?
(a) She is very sick.
(b) After her experience, the doctors make her nervous.
(c) She is finally able to vent emotions that have been pent up.
(d) She is very cold and cannot control her body.

7. The women pass many German cities and finally arrive at _________.
(a) Sachsenhausen.
(b) Flossenbürg.
(c) Camp Helmbrechts.
(d) Dachau.

8. How old does Gerda turn on May 8th?
(a) 21.
(b) 27.
(c) 25.
(d) 23.

9. Why does Gerda agree to marry Abek if she does not love him?
(a) She wants to make him feel better.
(b) Gerda deeply loves Abek.
(c) She wants a future for herself.
(d) She does not agree to marry Abek.

10. What does Gerda create to keep all of the girls' spirits up?
(a) Imaginary characters.
(b) Music to uplift their spirits.
(c) Drawings of happy families.
(d) She creates propaganda and plays.

11. How does Gerda say goodbye to Abek?
(a) She never gets to say goodbye to him.
(b) Over the phone.
(c) Through a note.
(d) She goes to see him.

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

13. What hard work group is Gerda assigned to at the new camp?
(a) Construction duty.
(b) Sewing instruction.
(c) Weaving classes.
(d) Flak detail.

14. What are the doctors concerned they will have to do if Gerda does not get better?
(a) Amputate her arms.
(b) Damaged lungs.
(c) Amputate her feet.
(d) Inability to have children.

15. On the walk, Gerda is called out by a guard. Gerda thinks she will be shot, but what must she really do?
(a) Be put in the sick car.
(b) Carry other girls.
(c) Threaten other girls to keep going.
(d) Move dead bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gerda do with the note?

2. As they arrive at the new camp, an intimidating woman named Frau Aufsicht, holds a frightening __________.

3. How long has it been since Gerda was allowed to take a bath?

4. Once girls begin losing their monthly periods, what does Gerda long for?

5. What is Malvine Berger's role in the camp?

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