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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Marion's paternal grandparents die?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1938.

2. How many Jews died on November 10th, 1938?
(a) 92.
(b) 94.
(c) 93.
(d) 91.

3. Where did Marion's paternal grandparents live as long as Marion could remember?
(a) Across the street from Marion's family.
(b) Next door to Marion's family.
(c) In the apartment above Marion's family.
(d) In the apartment below Marion's family.

4. What was the name of Marion's brother?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Albert.
(c) Robert.
(d) Jonathan.

5. What was the maiden name of Marion's mother?
(a) Ruth Aaronson.
(b) Ruth Stern.
(c) Ruth Bernbaum.
(d) Ruth Moses.

6. What section of the 2nd concentration camp that Marion and her family were sent to were they housed in?
(a) Sternliger.
(b) Starnlager.
(c) Sternlager.
(d) Sternlester.

7. How many Polish Jews were deported out of Germany in 1938?
(a) 18,000.
(b) 19,000.
(c) 21,000.
(d) 20,000.

8. What did Marion feel was the second worst thing at the second concentration camp?
(a) The separation from her father.
(b) The constant chill in the air.
(c) Gnawing hunger.
(d) The work they had to do.

9. What sad event happened every morning at the second concentration camp Marion's family lived in?
(a) The reading of the names of the dead.
(b) People died.
(c) Roll call.
(d) People being transferred to death camps.

10. What was the first thing that was done every morning at the second concentration camp?
(a) Bed check.
(b) Breakfast.
(c) Roll call.
(d) The reading of the names of the dead.

11. When did Marion's parents get married?
(a) December, 1931.
(b) November, 1931.
(c) October, 1931.
(d) September, 1931.

12. What ship had the Blumenthal's paid for their passage to America on?
(a) Veendam.
(b) Nieuw Veendam.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Nieuw Amsterdam.

13. How many Jewish people had relocated to the Netherlands from Germany by 1939?
(a) 140,000.
(b) 155,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 145,000.

14. What did the prisoners call the police aides?
(a) Lassen.
(b) Hallo.
(c) Januar.
(d) Kapo.

15. When did the Blumenthal's plan to set sail for America?
(a) April 1940.
(b) May 1940.
(c) June 1940.
(d) March 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. What documents did Marion's mother take to negotiate her husband's release from the concentration camp?

2. When did Hitler order a boycott of Jewish businesses?

3. In what year was Marion's brother born?

4. What was the daily food ration at the second concentration camp?

5. How old was Marion's mother when she took a train ride across Northern Germany to find her future?

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