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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the SS soldiers know by the time of the 1945 New Year?
(a) That they would be captured.
(b) That they could not kill everyone in the camp.
(c) That the war was lost.
(d) That they would have to flee.

2. What did Sara find on the road she was traveling on?
(a) Fleeing Germans.
(b) Other prisoners that escaped.
(c) Dead children.
(d) Russian soldiers.

3. What were the prisoners receiving according to Sara in Chapter 31?
(a) Showers.
(b) New clothes.
(c) Packages of food.
(d) More water.

4. What does the Editor say of Fela's values in the Editor's Afterword?
(a) They were forgotten.
(b) They were forced upon Sara.
(c) She upheld them.
(d) They were corrupt.

5. What does Sara say ultimately happened to Mala?
(a) An SS guard suffocated her.
(b) An SS guard drowned her.
(c) An SS guard shot her.
(d) She died in the gas chamber.

6. What does the editor claim the Holocaust represents for the Jewish people?
(a) The last exploitation.
(b) A test.
(c) An opportunity.
(d) A wake up call.

7. Who did the resistance arrange for Hans to do?
(a) Work near the Infirmary.
(b) Infiltrate the camp as a prisoner.
(c) Be captured.
(d) Infiltrate the camp as a guard.

8. What does Sara's story stimulate the Reader to do according to the Editor?
(a) Think on complex issues.
(b) Think about the Jewish faith.
(c) Learn about her.
(d) Learn more about the Holocaust.

9. What did Sara say the prisoners started singing at midnight on New Years Eve 1944?
(a) Russian songs.
(b) The Internationale.
(c) Christmas songs.
(d) Yiddish songs.

10. What does the editors say some Jewish people struggle with?
(a) Life.
(b) Survivors guilt.
(c) The history of the Holocaust.
(d) Freedom.

11. What awoke the infirmary workers two weeks after the New Year?
(a) Screams and shouting.
(b) Thunder.
(c) Bombs and gunfire.
(d) Sound of rifle butts banging at the gate.

12. What does the Editor argue Sara tried to do in writing her story?
(a) Cast her demons away.
(b) Make sure the memory survives her.
(c) Put it behind her.
(d) Make the reality of Auschwitz believable.

13. What does Sara wonder at the start of Chapter 25?
(a) How she was able to survive.
(b) Why she couldn't save anyone.
(c) How she could have let herself be captured.
(d) How to put a price on a life.

14. Where were the rabbis in Chapter 27 from according to Sara?
(a) France.
(b) Poland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Hungary.

15. What does the Editor argue prisoners in concentration camp relied on when telling their story?
(a) Grief.
(b) Imaginatives.
(c) Too old for memories.
(d) Regret.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sara say she did not know how to handle in Chapter 39?

2. What did the SS do with Mala after her short stay at the hospital?

3. What does Sara say their was few of in Auschwitz?

4. Who does Sara say was celebrating the 1945 New Year?

5. What does the Editor say the story of Fela illustrates?

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