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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who sets up a hospital for the girls to recover?
(a) The Czech Republic hospitals.
(b) The Red Cross.
(c) The American Blue Cross.
(d) English Soliders Hospital.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the girls greatly appreciative to see do not exist at the camp?

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

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

4. After the war, what does Gerda do with her life?

5. Where are the girls finally allowed to dry their clothes and get warm food?

Short Essay Questions

1. What must the girls wear once they have been registered at the camp?

2. What does Gerda receive from Abek at Christmas?

3. How does Gerda acquire poison?

4. What part of Gerda's body has been the most affected by frostbite?

5. Who is the senior Jewess of Gerda's camp area?

6. What is the name of the kind US soldier that helps to liberate Gerda?

7. How does Gerda honor the memories of those that did not make it out of the Holocaust?

8. Gerda and her friend's lack of nutrition causes what to happen to many of the girls?

9. Newly arriving girls tell Gerda what hopeful news?

10. What good news does the American guard give the girls after their marching is complete?

(see the answer keys)

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