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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the speech reprinted in the newspaper in Chapter 33 addressed to?
(a) Prisoners.
(b) Russian soldiers.
(c) German civilians.
(d) German soldiers.

2. What did the women want according to Sara in Chapter 37?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Water.
(c) Food.
(d) Clean clothes.

3. What did Mala do on her way to her execution?
(a) Tried to escape.
(b) Tried to kill a guard.
(c) Shot herself.
(d) Slit her wrists.

4. What did the speech reprinted in the newspaper in Chapter 33 say to resist?
(a) Vengeance.
(b) Pity for the Germans.
(c) Fear of death.
(d) Fear of the Germans.

5. What does the Editor say the story of Fela illustrates?
(a) The effect of the story as a whole.
(b) How people change.
(c) The lack of morality in the camp.
(d) The fragile state of the human psyche.

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

7. What did Sara refuse to do according to Chapter 37?
(a) Be evacuated.
(b) Clean the camp.
(c) Take someone else's food.
(d) Die.

8. Who does Sara introduce in Chapter 30?
(a) Koka.
(b) Yosha.
(c) Mashs.
(d) Irena.

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

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

11. What did Sara notice about the Rostock military airport in Chapter 37?
(a) It had underground hangars.
(b) It was full of new jet fighters.
(c) It was empty.
(d) It was full of fleeing Germans.

12. Who was present in Rostock at the same time as Sara?
(a) German civilians.
(b) Polish civilians.
(c) SS and Auschwitz functionaries.
(d) Russian POW.

13. Who does Sara say ignored the women at the camp?
(a) The POW that were with them.
(b) The German civilians.
(c) SS and blokowe.
(d) The doctors.

14. What Jewish historian does the Editor's Afterword mention?
(a) Howard Adelson.
(b) Elie Wiesel.
(c) David Ayalon.
(d) Geoffrey Alderman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What newspaper did Orli give Sara and her friends?

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

3. What does the Editor say Sara displays a particular interest in as a method of expression?

4. What did the SS refuse to let the prisoners read according to Sara?

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

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