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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 news did Hans bring to Auschwitz?
(a) The capitulation of Germany.
(b) The American landing in Normandy.
(c) The Red Army crossed into Prussia.
(d) The bombing of Dresden.

2. Where does Sara say Mala was from?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Poland.

3. What did the SS soldiers know by the time of the 1945 New Year?
(a) That they would have to flee.
(b) That they would be captured.
(c) That they could not kill everyone in the camp.
(d) That the war was lost.

4. What does the Editor say of Fela's values in the Editor's Afterword?
(a) They were corrupt.
(b) They were forced upon Sara.
(c) She upheld them.
(d) They were forgotten.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Sara's story stimulate the Reader to do according to the Editor?

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

5. Who did Mengele bring to the infirmary in November according to Sara in Chapter 31?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sara introduce herself?

2. What were concentration camp prisoners denied based on the afterword?

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

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

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

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

7. What happened on January 18, 1945?

8. What did Irena try to encourage the women to do according to Sara in Chapter 30?

9. Who was hung at the gates at the end of October 1944 and why?

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

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