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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How are the girls forced to travel to the next camp?
(a) Running along side a car.
(b) By crowded trucks.
(c) Carrying all their belongings and running.
(d) By walking in the snow.

3. What kind of hope does Frau Kugler give Gerda?
(a) That other Germans will be kind to her.
(b) That the war will end soon.
(c) That she will see Gerda again.
(d) The hope that not all Germans are cruel.

4. What is Malvine Berger's role in the camp?
(a) She is the senior Jewess at the camp.
(b) She is a cruel work mistress.
(c) She comforts all the girls.
(d) She is a prisoner like the other women.

5. According to Meister Zimmer, what happens to prisoners who do not work well?
(a) They wil be rewarded.
(b) They will be moved to a different camp.
(c) They will be exterminated.
(d) They will get bad work positioned.

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

7. Where are the girls finally allowed to dry their clothes and get warm food?
(a) Cheimno.
(b) Camp Christianstadt.
(c) Buchenwald.
(d) Drancy.

8. What do the girls eat to stay alive as they sleep outside of the church?
(a) Snow.
(b) Nothing. They starve.
(c) Other dead bodies.
(d) Water.

9. What is Gerda's new work assignment?
(a) She count jewelry.
(b) She works in accounting.
(c) She must dig graves.
(d) She has to learn to weave.

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

11. As planes fly over them, what is the general feeling among all the girls at the camp?
(a) That they will be shot down.
(b) They will soon be killed by the guards.
(c) Hope because their misery will be over.
(d) The Americans are coming to release them.

12. In the first part of the chapter, Gerda is given a note. What does the note say?
(a) Abek wishes to marry her.
(b) That her parents are alive.
(c) That Gerda has been given permission to stay in Sosnowitz.
(d) That she will be transferred to a different camp.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Czech man announce to all of the scared Jewish women?

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

3. What does the Director of the camp use his ring for?

4. What is Gerda now resigned to?

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

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