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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) The lack of morality in the camp.
(c) The fragile state of the human psyche.
(d) How people change.

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

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

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

5. What does Sara say the women at the camp could not process?
(a) Fats and sugar.
(b) Protein.
(c) Water.
(d) Thoughts of their freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were Mala and her boyfriend caught after their escape?

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

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

4. What did Sara notice about the Rostock military airport in Chapter 37?

5. What does Sara wonder at the start of Chapter 25?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did the Holocaust raise according to the editor?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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