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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea did Sara think was naive during her trip?

2. What happened to the group Lisette's husband created?

3. What did Natasha pretend to be in Chapter 24?

4. What did Dr. Koenig do to Natasha?

5. What did the red triangle on Erika Schneider's arm mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Sara say about the term Auschwitz in Chapter 18?

2. What was the worst time of Auschwitz according to Sara in Chapter 19?

3. What happened when Sara was in the infirmary in Chapter 8?

4. Where was Sara lying at the start of Chapter 1 of "Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land"?

5. Why did Orli Reichert impress Sara?

6. What did Sarah say Mengele had the gypsy boy do in Chapter 21?

7. Who was Orli Reichert according to Sara in Chapter 9?

8. Who seemed angelic to Sara in Chapter 7?

9. How did Cyla change after her time with Taube?

10. When did Sara say that no modesty was permitted in Auschwitz?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the selection process used by Dr. Mengele for sending people to the gas chambers. Discuss why he used this selection process and discuss the problems with such a method. Use the text and secondary sources to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 2

In "Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land", Sara examines different types of communists by introducing people who held such beliefs, such as Erika Schneider. Define what it meant meant to be a communist and analyze whether Nazi's fit into this definition. Students should compare different characters in their analysis and use the text and secondary sources to support their conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Mengele brought a gypsy boy into the infirmary, dressed elaborately and made him sing and dance. Mengele continued to parade him around the camp for the summer, but when fall came, the gypsy camp was killed and Mengele was said to have pushed the boy into the chamber himself. Students should describe who the gypsies were, why they were called gypsies, why they in concentration camps despite being Aryan, and discuss the gypsy family camp. Students should use the text and secondary sources to support their discussion of the gypsies.

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