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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. What hard work group is Gerda assigned to at the new camp?

2. How does Gerda say goodbye to Abek?

3. How do Gerda and Ilse travel to Marzdorf?

4. At the new camp, what are the girls now forced to wear?

5. What kinds of letters does Gerda get from Abek?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Newly arriving girls tell Gerda what hopeful news?

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

5. When does Gerda meet Frau Kugler?

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

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

8. When is Gerda given an identifying number?

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

10. How long is Gerda at the camp?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Gerda and her friends are taken to Landeshut by Director Keller, she says tat she feels like she has come home.

a. Why was she overcome with joy?

b. Why do you think Director Keller sent them to Landeshut?

c. Why does Gerda pretend to care for Abek?

Essay Topic 2

During the story, some of the characters acquire poison for themselves of for their children. Why do some of the families force their children to take the poison?

a. Do you feel that this is necessary?

b. Does Gerda ever use the poison that she traded her pendant for?

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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