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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did Mengele bring to the infirmary in November according to Sara in Chapter 31?
(a) Children.
(b) Young women.
(c) Old men.
(d) Old and infirm women.

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

4. What does Sara say their was few of in Auschwitz?
(a) Suicides.
(b) Births.
(c) Killings.
(d) Marriages.

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

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

7. What does Sara's story stimulate the Reader to do according to the Editor?
(a) Learn about her.
(b) Learn more about the Holocaust.
(c) Think on complex issues.
(d) Think about the Jewish faith.

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

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

10. Where were the rabbis in Chapter 27 from according to Sara?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Poland.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

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

12. How many rabbis does Sara say were brought into the camp in Chapter 27?
(a) 250.
(b) 150.
(c) 160.
(d) 100.

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

14. What did Mengele do to the ones he brought to the infirmary in November?
(a) Treated their wounds.
(b) Killed them with phenol injections.
(c) Sent them to the gas chambers.
(d) Fed them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sara do during the evacuation of her camp?

2. What does the Editor say distorts the story of some Holocaust witnesses?

3. What does Sara say that she and the other women hoped for?

4. What does the Editor argue Sara tried to do in writing her story?

5. How was the camp often awakened in April 1945 according to Sara?

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