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

2. Who was present in Rostock at the same time as Sara?
(a) Russian POW.
(b) SS and Auschwitz functionaries.
(c) German civilians.
(d) Polish civilians.

3. What did the SS refuse to let the prisoners read according to Sara?
(a) American magazines.
(b) Books in Yiddish.
(c) Leaflets telling them of their impending liberation.
(d) Leaflets telling them of their impending death.

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

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

6. What Jewish historian does the Editor's Afterword mention?
(a) David Ayalon.
(b) Howard Adelson.
(c) Geoffrey Alderman.
(d) Elie Wiesel.

7. What does the Editor say Sara displays a particular interest in as a method of expression?
(a) Events.
(b) The infirmary.
(c) Fear.
(d) Characters.

8. What did the Editor argue concentration camp denied prisoners?
(a) Warm accommodations.
(b) Food.
(c) Freedom.
(d) The ability to organize their lives.

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

10. What does Sara say that she and the other women hoped for?
(a) The Mala would spread the word of what was happening inside the camp.
(b) That Mala would make it to the Russians.
(c) Mala's capture.
(d) A quick death for Mala.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sara refuse to do according to Chapter 37?

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

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

4. What was Mala's boyfriend's name?

5. What was the date when all the hospital documents were taken away?

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