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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Abek's family?
(a) They flee to Russia.
(b) They flee to America.
(c) They make it out of the war.
(d) They are all shipped off to Auschwitz.

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

3. Why does Gerda think her father is dead?
(a) Her mother told Gerda her father was dead.
(b) She has not heard from him in a very long time.
(c) She finally gets a letter with extremely weak handwritting.
(d) Abek told her he was dead.

4. Two weeks following the arrival of the male soldiers, what is happening around the camp?
(a) Girls are disappearing.
(b) Bombs are being dropped over the camp more and more.
(c) Guards are disappearing
(d) Air-raid alarms are increasing.

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

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

7. Why does Mrs Berger slap one of the girls?
(a) She never slaps anyone.
(b) To prove herself to the Germans.
(c) To enjoy violence.
(d) To establish her authority among the lower ranked Jewish women.

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

9. What is Gerda now resigned to?
(a) Dying in the camp.
(b) Marrying Abek even though she does not love him.
(c) Spending time with Abek.
(d) Never having children.

10. As they arrive at the new camp, an intimidating woman named Frau Aufsicht, holds a frightening __________.
(a) Black whip.
(b) Paddle.
(c) 2x4 peice of wood.
(d) Gun.

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

12. What do the girls overhear that makes them excited?
(a) Hitler is dead.
(b) Hitler committed suicide
(c) Hitler has decided to release the Jews.
(d) The SS is being disbanded.

13. What words describe Frau Kugler?
(a) Secretly kind.
(b) Strange.
(c) Stupid and inept.
(d) Grim and militaristic.

14. Where do the girls that are still alive end their journey?
(a) Russia.
(b) Gerlin, Germany.
(c) Prague, Czechoslovakia
(d) Volary, Czechoslovakia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As planes fly over them, what is the general feeling among all the girls at the camp?

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

3. How is Abek allowed to see Gerda?

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

5. How does Abek look when Gerda is finally allowed to see him?

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