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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Mala resist torture at the hands of the SS?
(a) For a few minutes.
(b) For weeks.
(c) For days.
(d) For hours.

2. What style does Sara use to tell her story according to the Editor?
(a) Humor.
(b) Yiddish folktales.
(c) Short stories.
(d) TV scripts.

3. What did the bombing give to Sara and others in the camp?
(a) Relief.
(b) Regret.
(c) Hope.
(d) Fear.

4. What did the rabbis start to sing according to Sara?
(a) The Kol Nidrei.
(b) The Masoretes.
(c) The Songs of Ascents.
(d) The Lekha Dodi.

5. What does Sara say that she and the other women hoped for?
(a) Mala's capture.
(b) A quick death for Mala.
(c) The Mala would spread the word of what was happening inside the camp.
(d) That Mala would make it to the Russians.

6. Who came the the infirmary to take all of the hospital documents?
(a) Mrs. Helena and the SS.
(b) Russian soldiers.
(c) Dr. Mengele.
(d) Dr. Koening and the SS.

7. What news did Hans bring to Auschwitz?
(a) The American landing in Normandy.
(b) The capitulation of Germany.
(c) The bombing of Dresden.
(d) The Red Army crossed into Prussia.

8. What does Sara wonder about a person's death?
(a) If one can choose death before being killed.
(b) How much pain one can endure.
(c) If it is better to be gassed or shot.
(d) If it is better to know when one will die.

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

10. What was Mala's boyfriend's name?
(a) Tadeusz.
(b) Jacob.
(c) Aljah.
(d) Aden.

11. How does the Editor qualify Sara's memories?
(a) Simple.
(b) Accurate.
(c) Disturbing.
(d) Good.

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

13. Why did the gassing cease in Auschwitz according to Sara?
(a) Because the Russians had threatened to do the same to Germans.
(b) Because they needed to evacuate.
(c) Because the cremation unit broke down.
(d) Because of bombing activity.

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

15. What does the Editor say distorts the story of some Holocaust witnesses?
(a) The psychological trauma.
(b) Their young age at the time.
(c) Their old age.
(d) The survivors guilt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Russian soldiers find for Sara and her group?

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

3. What was the date when all the hospital documents were taken away?

4. What did the Editor argue concentration camp denied prisoners?

5. What does the editor claim the Holocaust did for Western civilization?

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