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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 does the Editor say the story of Fela illustrates?
(a) The effect of the story as a whole.
(b) How people change.
(c) The lack of morality in the camp.
(d) The fragile state of the human psyche.

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

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

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

5. Whose speech was printed in the news paper Orli gave Sara and the others?
(a) Hitler's.
(b) Ilya Ehrenburg's.
(c) Goebbel's.
(d) Stalin's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose planes were bombing Auschwitz more frequently in the end of 1944 according to Sara in Chapter 31?

2. What does the editor claim the Holocaust did for Western civilization?

3. What does Sara say many believed about the world after the defeat of the Germans?

4. What did Mengele do to the ones he brought to the infirmary in November?

5. How long did Mala resist torture at the hands of the SS?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Sara and her friends discover it would be dangerous to stay in the haystacks in Chapter 39?

2. How did Sara introduce herself?

3. Where did the Auschwitz prisoners go to after the march?

4. What gave Sara and other infirmary workers a sense of hope as 1944 came to an end?

5. What did the copy of Goebbel's newspaper say?

6. Who was Hans and what did the resistance arrange for him?

7. Who was Mrs. Helena and when did she and Sara meet?

8. Who appeared before Sara when the women were singing one day?

9. Why did the women's digestive systems rebel against the food from the Red Cross?

10. What did Dr. Koenig and the SS men want when they arrived at the infirmary?

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