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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Editor qualify Sara's memories?

2. What were the prisoners receiving according to Sara in Chapter 31?

3. What did the Russian soldiers find for Sara and her group?

4. What did the camp Sara was relocated to at Rostock have?

5. What newspaper did Orli give Sara and her friends?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tradition did Sara write in according to the editor?

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

3. What did the one hundred rabbis do upon arrival in Auschwitz?

4. What did the editor say the Holocaust witnesses had trouble with?

5. What did the leaflets dropped in Chapter 38 say?

6. What did Magna believe about dignity as human beings in Chapter 25?

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

8. What happened on January 18, 1945?

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

10. What threat did Sara say the Russians used against the Germans in Chapter 31?

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