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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 prisoners in concentration camps were lacking?
(a) Food.
(b) Psychological props.
(c) Physical support.
(d) Water.

2. What did some of the women do to keep busy?
(a) Cleaned the camp.
(b) Treated the wounded.
(c) Tried to sleep.
(d) Played cards.

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

4. What did Sara do during the evacuation of her camp?
(a) She followed Orli.
(b) She stayed behind.
(c) She played dead.
(d) She stole food.

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

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

7. What newspaper did Orli give Sara and her friends?
(a) The Pravda.
(b) The Washington Post.
(c) Goebbels.
(d) The New York Times.

8. What does Sara say she did not know how to handle in Chapter 39?
(a) Food.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Attention.
(d) Friendship.

9. What was Mala's boyfriend's name?
(a) Aljah.
(b) Aden.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Tadeusz.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sara say sirens sounding meant in Chapter 26?

2. What does the Editor say of Fela's values in the Editor's Afterword?

3. What style does Sara use to tell her story according to the Editor?

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

5. Whose speech was printed in the news paper Orli gave Sara and the others?

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