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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Gerda and Ilse travel to Marzdorf?

2. What do a frightened Gerda and Ilse pass on their medical exams?

3. What lie does the Camp Director tell the girls to burst their hope?

4. What is the most dangerous part of the new camp, Grunberg?

5. What does the Czech man announce to all of the scared Jewish women?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Newly arriving girls tell Gerda what hopeful news?

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

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

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

6. How does Gerda say goodbye to Abek?

7. What has Abek given up to be with Gerda?

8. How is Abek able to eventually see Gerda?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the character of Ilse. How does she strengthen Gerda to carry on throughout their struggle for survival? How does Ilse's death change Gerda's resolve?

Essay Topic 2

Gerda creates her own propaganda to keep up the girls' spirits. Does this help them carry on? Do you think it was the right thing to do? What other ways could Gerda help the girls to keep them optimistic?

Essay Topic 3

Abek Feignblatt played an important part of the story, especially through the eyes of Gerda:

a. Why wasn't Abek shipped off with other able bodied men?

b. What do you think happened to his character?

c. What role did Abek's mother and sisters play? How did they avoid being sent to the concentration camp?

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