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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 - 18, A Peculiar Roll Call, The Block of Death, Morituri te Salutant, Marie and Odette, Esther's First Born, Old Words—New Meanings.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sara hope to do in Stutthof?
(a) Write a book.
(b) Escape.
(c) Die quickly.
(d) Survive the war.

2. What did Sara say was terrible in her block?
(a) The fight for food.
(b) The smell.
(c) The weather.
(d) The fight for beds.

3. What was Taube known for at Auschwitz?
(a) Killing people quickly.
(b) Killing people slowly.
(c) Being kind to prisoners.
(d) Being the one who chooses who lives and who dies.

4. Why did Eva go rogue while she was in the Gestapo hierarchy?
(a) Because they were too soft.
(b) Bacause she was in love with a Jewish man.
(c) Because of their brutality.
(d) Because she didn't get a promotion.

5. How did the bread thief justify her crime?
(a) She said Sara's block would be going to the gas chamber.
(b) She said she needed it for her child.
(c) She said Sara was fat anyway.
(d) She said she was forced to do it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Sara impressed by in Orli Reichert?

2. Why was Orli Reichert imprisoned?

3. Why does Sara say Lisette remained happy after arriving at Auschwitz?

4. What was the name of the nurse that treated Sara in Chapter 8?

5. Who did Cyla claim to have put in the gas chamber?

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