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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 did Abek give up to be closer to Gerda?
(a) A job of portrait painting at a nearby camp.
(b) A clerk in the accounting section.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Hospital attendant.

2. Once girls begin losing their monthly periods, what does Gerda long for?
(a) To see her family.
(b) The ability to have a baby.
(c) To date a boy.
(d) A claim to her womanhood and femininity.

3. What hard work group is Gerda assigned to at the new camp?
(a) Weaving classes.
(b) Sewing instruction.
(c) Flak detail.
(d) Construction duty.

4. What does the Director of the camp use his ring for?
(a) Admire it.
(b) Bribe girls into sleeping with him.
(c) Poking people's eyes out.
(d) To make beatings worse for the girls.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are the girls forced to travel to the next camp?

3. Why does Gerda agree to marry Abek if she does not love him?

4. What do the girls pray for every night?

5. What are the doctors concerned they will have to do if Gerda does not get better?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Gerda sad as the girls march away from Helmbrecht?

2. When they are forced to move, where must the girls go and must they travel there?

3. How old is Gerda when she goes to see Burnberg for the first time?

4. How long is Gerda at the camp?

5. When and where are they girls forced to go after arriving at Marzdorf?

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

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

8. How does Gerda acquire poison?

9. On May 6, 1949, Frau Kugler announces that the girls will be moved where?

10. Newly arriving girls tell Gerda what hopeful news?

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