View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How many rabbis does Sara say were brought into the camp in Chapter 27?
(a) 160.
(b) 250.
(c) 150.
(d) 100.

6. What does Sara say their was few of in Auschwitz?
(a) Suicides.
(b) Births.
(c) Killings.
(d) Marriages.

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

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

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

10. Who did Mengele bring to the infirmary in November according to Sara in Chapter 31?
(a) Young women.
(b) Old and infirm women.
(c) Old men.
(d) Children.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the rabbis start to sing according to Sara?

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

3. Who rescued Sara during her trip out of Auschwitz?

4. What were the prisoners receiving according to Sara in Chapter 31?

5. How were the rabbis dressed in Chapter 27?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 437 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample