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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the girls greatly appreciative to see do not exist at the camp?
(a) Furnaces.
(b) Labor fields.
(c) More male guards.
(d) Sewing rooms.

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

3. At the new camp, what are the girls now forced to wear?
(a) Wet clothing, covered in vermin repellent.
(b) They are not allowed to wear clothes.
(c) Underwear.
(d) Sacks made out of rough material.

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

5. What does Frau Aufsicht make several girls do for her entertainment?
(a) Makes them stand outside naked for hours.
(b) Pull her around in a child's wagon while cracking her whip on their backs.
(c) Tortures them.
(d) Makes the girls wait on her.

6. What happens to girls that lag behind?
(a) The Germans leave them alone.
(b) The guards use cars to drag their dead bodies.
(c) They are left for dead.
(d) They are beaten; if they don't move they are shot.

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

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

9. 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 she will be transferred to a different camp.
(c) That Gerda has been given permission to stay in Sosnowitz.
(d) That her parents are alive.

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

11. Why is Gerda in despair at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Her letter to her father in returned unopened.
(b) Ilse has died.
(c) She has not heard from her mother.
(d) She thinks Abek is dead.

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

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

14. How many stars of David do the girls have to wear on their bodies?
(a) Three.
(b) None.
(c) Ten.
(d) One.

15. What number is Gerda given by the male SS guards?
(a) 855A
(b) 879A
(c) 895A.
(d) 885A

Short Answer Questions

1. Two weeks following the arrival of the male soldiers, what is happening around the camp?

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

3. What kind act do the doctors of the hospital do for Gerda?

4. What awful rumors are being spread around the camp?

5. At this point, as they march through the snow, what is the collective thought among the girls as the days pass by?

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