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

2. Who told Sara and her group that they would soon receive Red Cross food?
(a) Mrs. Helena.
(b) Orli.
(c) Wierka.
(d) Mila.

3. What did Sara do during the evacuation of her camp?
(a) She followed Orli.
(b) She stayed behind.
(c) She played dead.
(d) She stole food.

4. What does Sara say sirens sounding meant in Chapter 26?
(a) Meal time.
(b) A bombing.
(c) An escape or a bombing.
(d) An escape.

5. Why did the SS torture Mala and her boyfriend?
(a) To set an example.
(b) Because they liked it.
(c) For information about the Allied forces.
(d) To discover who helped them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the rabbis in Chapter 27 from according to Sara?

2. What did the speech reprinted in the newspaper in Chapter 33 say to resist?

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

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

5. What did the camp members start to yearn for after reading the newspaper in Chapter 33?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Sara and other survivors draw on according to the editor?

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

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

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

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

6. How did Sara introduce herself?

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

8. What was the story Mrs. Helena shared with Sara and the other infirmary workers?

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

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

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