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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Editor argue concentration camp denied prisoners?
(a) Food.
(b) Warm accommodations.
(c) Freedom.
(d) The ability to organize their lives.

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

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

4. How were the rabbis dressed in Chapter 27?
(a) In rags.
(b) In German uniforms.
(c) They were naked.
(d) In ceremonial garb.

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

6. Whose speech was printed in the news paper Orli gave Sara and the others?
(a) Stalin's.
(b) Hitler's.
(c) Ilya Ehrenburg's.
(d) Goebbel's.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Where does Sara say Mala was from?
(a) Spain.
(b) Poland.
(c) France.
(d) Belgium.

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

15. What does the Editor say Sara represented in the book?
(a) The traditional value system.
(b) Stability.
(c) The exterior influence.
(d) Morality.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the Editor say some prisoners did with their value system?

4. What did Sara refuse to do according to Chapter 37?

5. Who told Sara and her group that they would soon receive Red Cross food?

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