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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gerda do with the note?
(a) Gives it to Ilse.
(b) Frames the note.
(c) She tears it up before she reads it.
(d) Keeps it as evidence.

2. Why is Abek hurt by Gerda's hug?
(a) It lacks passion and love.
(b) Gerda does not look at Abek as she hugs him.
(c) She refuses to hug him.
(d) She kisses him instead.

3. How do Gerda and Ilse travel to Marzdorf?
(a) By Train.
(b) By small cars.
(c) By truck.
(d) She is forced to march.

4. As time goes by, Abek's state of mind is _____________.
(a) obsessed with Gerda.
(b) descending into deep depression.
(c) loosing its hold on reality.
(d) gathering strength.

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

6. How long does Suze think she and Gerda will be at the new work camp?
(a) A year.
(b) Three months.
(c) Indevinately.
(d) Five years.

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

8. What does Gerda have to completely relearn?
(a) How to walk.
(b) Moving her feet.
(c) How to breathe.
(d) Moving her arms.

9. While the Germans lose ground on the Eastern Front, what privileges do the women lose?
(a) Food ration privledges.
(b) The ability to wear clothes.
(c) The ability to receive mail.
(d) The right to showers.

10. What lie does the Camp Director tell the girls to burst their hope?
(a) The Nazis and Italians have joined forces.
(b) Hilter is appearing on television.
(c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt has died.
(d) The Americans have been conquered.

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

12. What are the rumors surrounding the camp about Poland?
(a) The war will soon be over.
(b) The Russians have taken control of Poland.
(c) America has been taken over by the Germans.
(d) The Nazis have won.

13. How long has it been since Gerda was allowed to take a bath?
(a) Three years.
(b) Five days.
(c) Three days.
(d) Two years.

14. What does the Czech man announce to all of the scared Jewish women?
(a) They should no longer be scared.
(b) The Jews are now under the capture of the Russians.
(c) The war is finally over!
(d) They will have to go back to the camps.

15. What is different about the new camp?
(a) The guards are nicer.
(b) The guards are meaner.
(c) It is very dirty.
(d) It is cleaner and nicer than Dulag.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many stars of David do the girls have to wear on their bodies?

2. What do the girls overhear that makes them excited?

3. By 1943, how long has it been since the Germans invaded Poland?

4. What hard work group is Gerda assigned to at the new camp?

5. What do some Jewish parents do to avoid Auschwitz?

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