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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Orli say the Germans would destroy?
(a) The camp.
(b) All the documents.
(c) Witnesses to their crimes.
(d) The Russian Army.

3. What did Sara and the others not have to do at the new camp?
(a) Work.
(b) Have roll call.
(c) Clean.
(d) Burn bodies.

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

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

6. Who told Sara and her group that they would soon receive Red Cross food?
(a) Mila.
(b) Orli.
(c) Wierka.
(d) Mrs. Helena.

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

8. What does Sara wonder at the start of Chapter 25?
(a) How to put a price on a life.
(b) How she was able to survive.
(c) How she could have let herself be captured.
(d) Why she couldn't save anyone.

9. What does the Editor argue prisoners in concentration camps were lacking?
(a) Food.
(b) Psychological props.
(c) Physical support.
(d) Water.

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

11. What was the date when all the hospital documents were taken away?
(a) January 17, 1945.
(b) January 23, 1944.
(c) January 17, 1944.
(d) January 15, 1946.

12. What were the infirmary workers forced to do in Chapter 26?
(a) Save Mala's life.
(b) Kill Mala's boyfriend with an injection.
(c) Experiment on Mala.
(d) Kill Mala with an injection.

13. 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.

14. What were the prisoners receiving according to Sara in Chapter 31?
(a) New clothes.
(b) Showers.
(c) Packages of food.
(d) More water.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What camp was Sara relocated to after Auschwitz?

3. Who came the the infirmary to take all of the hospital documents?

4. What does Sara wonder about a person's death?

5. What does Sara say ultimately happened to Mala?

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