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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Taube known for at Auschwitz?
(a) Being kind to prisoners.
(b) Killing people quickly.
(c) Killing people slowly.
(d) Being the one who chooses who lives and who dies.

2. What did Lisette tell her husband to do after receiving his letter?
(a) To organize a group and blow up the crematoriums.
(b) To organize a group and plan an insurrection.
(c) To organize a group and escape.
(d) To organize a group and come get her.

3. Who did Cyla claim to have put in the gas chamber?
(a) Her own mother.
(b) Her own sister.
(c) Her own daughter.
(d) Her own father.

4. What did Natasha pretend to be in Chapter 24?
(a) Death.
(b) German.
(c) Insane so she could insult Germans.
(d) Blind.

5. What idea did Sara think was naive during her trip?
(a) That they would be killed.
(b) That the war would be over soon.
(c) That the women were being taken to a prisoner exchange.
(d) That they would get better accommodations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Sara say was stealing the bread?

2. What did the women in Sara's block board?

3. Why did Erika dislike Orli most according to Sara at the end of Chapter 12?

4. What does Sara say were burned like torches?

5. What does Sara say Mengele decided to create?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Sara say that no modesty was permitted in Auschwitz?

2. How did Sara differentiate between group of Jews present in Auschwitz?

3. What did Sara find out about Natasha and what happened the following day?

4. Who seemed angelic to Sara in Chapter 7?

5. Who did Sara say Orli Reichert saved in Chapter 10?

6. Why did Orli Reichert impress Sara?

7. Where was Sara lying at the start of Chapter 1 of "Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land"?

8. Who was Natasha and what did she say to provoke Mengele?

9. Why did Esther seek Sara out and what happened to Esther in Chapter 17?

10. What happened to the bodies of those who committed suicide according to Sarah?

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