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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 kind act do the doctors of the hospital do for Gerda?
(a) Pay for her train ticket to Munich.
(b) Treat her for no money.
(c) Perform her wedding ceremony to Kurt.
(d) The doctors give Gerda extra money for working for them.

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

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

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

5. What does the Czech man announce to all of the scared Jewish women?
(a) The war is finally over!
(b) They should no longer be scared.
(c) The Jews are now under the capture of the Russians.
(d) They will have to go back to the camps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Kurt stationed so he can be closer to Gerda?

2. Why does Gerda begin to convulse in the hospital?

3. How long does Suze think she and Gerda will be at the new work camp?

4. Why does Frau Kugler make a very sick Gerda go to work one day?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Gerda acquire poison?

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

5. Newly arriving girls tell Gerda what hopeful news?

6. When does Gerda meet Frau Kugler?

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

8. What does Gerda learn about Abek's family in Sosnowitz?

9. What date are the girls forced to go to their new camp?

10. In order to crush the girls' spirits what does the new camp director tell them?

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