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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 Sara say the prisoners started singing at midnight on New Years Eve 1944?
(a) Christmas songs.
(b) The Internationale.
(c) Russian songs.
(d) Yiddish songs.

2. What awoke the infirmary workers two weeks after the New Year?
(a) Thunder.
(b) Bombs and gunfire.
(c) Screams and shouting.
(d) Sound of rifle butts banging at the gate.

3. Where was Mala's boyfriend's corpse hung?
(a) In Sara's block.
(b) Near his block.
(c) On the gate.
(d) Next to the woman's camp.

4. Who does Sara say ignored the women at the camp?
(a) SS and blokowe.
(b) The doctors.
(c) The POW that were with them.
(d) The German civilians.

5. What does the Editor argue prisoners in concentration camps were lacking?
(a) Psychological props.
(b) Physical support.
(c) Water.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose speech was printed in the news paper Orli gave Sara and the others?

2. Who does Sara introduce in Chapter 30?

3. How many girls from Krakow did Mrs. Helena say were killed by Mengele in Chapter 29?

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

5. What did the SS do with Mala after her short stay at the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened on January 18, 1945?

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

4. Where did Sara return after the Germans surrendered?

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

6. Why did the sirens sound in Auschwitz the fall of 1944?

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

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

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

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

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