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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What newspaper did Orli give Sara and her friends?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Washington Post.
(c) Goebbels.
(d) The Pravda.

2. Who does Sara say was celebrating the 1945 New Year?
(a) The prisoners.
(b) The guards.
(c) The Russian prisoners.
(d) The SS.

3. Where was Mala's boyfriend's corpse hung?
(a) Next to the woman's camp.
(b) On the gate.
(c) Near his block.
(d) In Sara's block.

4. What does Sara say the women at the camp could not process?
(a) Thoughts of their freedom.
(b) Fats and sugar.
(c) Protein.
(d) Water.

5. Whose speech was printed in the news paper Orli gave Sara and the others?
(a) Ilya Ehrenburg's.
(b) Hitler's.
(c) Stalin's.
(d) Goebbel's.

6. What did the camp Sara was relocated to at Rostock have?
(a) Lice.
(b) Mices.
(c) Bats.
(d) Rats.

7. What did the SS refuse to let the prisoners read according to Sara?
(a) American magazines.
(b) Leaflets telling them of their impending liberation.
(c) Leaflets telling them of their impending death.
(d) Books in Yiddish.

8. What does the editor claim the Holocaust did for Western civilization?
(a) Taught empathy.
(b) Forced them to accept others.
(c) Raised questions.
(d) Taught restraint.

9. Where does Sara say Mala was from?
(a) Belgium.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Poland.

10. What was the date when all the hospital documents were taken away?
(a) January 17, 1945.
(b) January 17, 1944.
(c) January 23, 1944.
(d) January 15, 1946.

11. What did the workers decorate according to Sara in Chapter 34?
(a) The infirmary.
(b) The camp.
(c) The gates.
(d) The interior of the blocks.

12. What camp was Sara relocated to after Auschwitz?
(a) Bukenvald.
(b) Rostock
(c) Treblinka.
(d) Ravensbruck.

13. What did Mengele do to the ones he brought to the infirmary in November?
(a) Killed them with phenol injections.
(b) Treated their wounds.
(c) Sent them to the gas chambers.
(d) Fed them.

14. What did Orli say the Germans would destroy?
(a) Witnesses to their crimes.
(b) The camp.
(c) All the documents.
(d) The Russian Army.

15. What did Sara do during the evacuation of her camp?
(a) She stayed behind.
(b) She followed Orli.
(c) She stole food.
(d) She played dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Editor say of Fela's values in the Editor's Afterword?

2. Who told Sara and her group that they would soon receive Red Cross food?

3. What does the Editor say Sara represented in the book?

4. What does the Editor argue prisoners in concentration camps were lacking?

5. What did Sara say the prisoners started singing at midnight on New Years Eve 1944?

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