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

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

3. What did the workers decorate according to Sara in Chapter 34?
(a) The camp.
(b) The interior of the blocks.
(c) The infirmary.
(d) The gates.

4. What does Sara say filled the open space of the camp the previous New Year?
(a) Snow.
(b) German civilians.
(c) Singing and drunk Germans.
(d) Dead prisoners.

5. What does the Editor say some prisoners did with their value system?
(a) They adjusted it to the camp life.
(b) They forgot it.
(c) They tried to force it upon others.
(d) They hold on to it.

6. What did the camp members start to yearn for after reading the newspaper in Chapter 33?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Death.
(c) Fear.
(d) Food.

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

8. What country did Sara return to in 1945?
(a) Slovakia.
(b) USSR.
(c) People's Poland.
(d) Russia.

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

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

11. What did the women want according to Sara in Chapter 37?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Clean clothes.
(c) Water.
(d) Food.

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

13. How many girls from Krakow did Mrs. Helena say were killed by Mengele in Chapter 29?
(a) 356.
(b) 459.
(c) 156.
(d) 25.

14. What does Sara say ultimately happened to Mala?
(a) An SS guard shot her.
(b) An SS guard suffocated her.
(c) An SS guard drowned her.
(d) She died in the gas chamber.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did the SS do with Mala after her short stay at the hospital?

4. What were the infirmary workers forced to do in Chapter 26?

5. What awoke the infirmary workers two weeks after the New Year?

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