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

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

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

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

5. What awoke the infirmary workers two weeks after the New Year?
(a) Screams and shouting.
(b) Sound of rifle butts banging at the gate.
(c) Bombs and gunfire.
(d) Thunder.

6. Who does Sara say ignored the women at the camp?
(a) The POW that were with them.
(b) The German civilians.
(c) SS and blokowe.
(d) The doctors.

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

8. What did the rabbis start to sing according to Sara?
(a) The Masoretes.
(b) The Kol Nidrei.
(c) The Songs of Ascents.
(d) The Lekha Dodi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sara say she did not know how to handle in Chapter 39?

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

3. Where does Sara say Mala was from?

4. How does the Editor qualify Sara's stories?

5. Why did the SS torture Mala and her boyfriend?

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