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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 are the rumors surrounding the camp about Poland?
(a) The Russians have taken control of Poland.
(b) The Nazis have won.
(c) The war will soon be over.
(d) America has been taken over by the Germans.

2. What can Gerda not bear to do?
(a) Continue to walk.
(b) Think positive thoughts.
(c) She can't bear to bury Ilse.
(d) Commit suicide.

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

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

5. While the Germans lose ground on the Eastern Front, what privileges do the women lose?
(a) The right to showers.
(b) Food ration privledges.
(c) The ability to wear clothes.
(d) The ability to receive mail.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Gerda do with the note?

5. What happens to Gerda after Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Abek able to eventually see Gerda?

2. Newly arriving girls tell Gerda what hopeful news?

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

4. How does Gerda say goodbye to Abek?

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

6. Finally, after marching, where do the girls arrive?

7. After Ilse's death, what is the next town the girls stop in?

8. What does Gerda learn to guard as time goes on?

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

10. Why does Gerda begin to convulse after arriving at the Red Cross hospital?

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