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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 do with Mala after her short stay at the hospital?
(a) Let her rot in the mud.
(b) Brought her to the gas chamber.
(c) Put her back in her block.
(d) Buried her.

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

3. When did the SS decide to evacuate the camp Sara was at in early 1945?
(a) April 20.
(b) April 1.
(c) April 30.
(d) April 10.

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

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

6. What does Sara say many believed about the world after the defeat of the Germans?
(a) It would come to an end.
(b) They would not live to see it.
(c) Zion would be theirs.
(d) It would begin anew.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does the Editor say Sara displays a particular interest in as a method of expression?
(a) Events.
(b) Characters.
(c) Fear.
(d) The infirmary.

14. What did some of the women do to keep busy?
(a) Cleaned the camp.
(b) Treated the wounded.
(c) Tried to sleep.
(d) Played cards.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the rabbis dressed in Chapter 27?

2. How many rabbis does Sara say were brought into the camp in Chapter 27?

3. Who was present in Rostock at the same time as Sara?

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

5. What did Sara find on the road she was traveling on?

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