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

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

4. When did the SS decide to evacuate the camp Sara was at in early 1945?
(a) April 20.
(b) April 10.
(c) April 30.
(d) April 1.

5. What does Sara wonder at the start of Chapter 25?
(a) How to put a price on a life.
(b) How she was able to survive.
(c) Why she couldn't save anyone.
(d) How she could have let herself be captured.

Short Answer Questions

1. What camp was Sara relocated to after Auschwitz?

2. What did Sara refuse to do according to Chapter 37?

3. What does the Editor argue Sara tried to do in writing her story?

4. What were the infirmary workers forced to do in Chapter 26?

5. Why did the gassing cease in Auschwitz according to Sara?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Sara introduce herself?

3. Where did Sara return after the Germans surrendered?

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

5. What did Sara do on April 30 1945 when the SS decided to evacuate them?

6. What destination did Sara's transport reach in Chapter 37?

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

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

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

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

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