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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 does Sara wonder at the start of Chapter 25?

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

3. When did the SS decide to evacuate the camp Sara was at in early 1945?

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

5. Whose speech was printed in the news paper Orli gave Sara and the others?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Sara return after the Germans surrendered?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why did the women's digestive systems rebel against the food from the Red Cross?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In January 1945, those imprisoned at Auschwitz were forced on a death march to Ravensbruck, a concentration camp located in Eastern Germany. Those who could not keep up or were ill were shot. Examine the significance and purpose of the death march, using the text and secondary sources to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the focus on the differences between Jewish prisoners who were from different countries and examine why they had the differing views and why they disliked each other. Use the text and outside sources to support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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