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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Marion save up to buy with her allowance in Amsterdam?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Bubble gum.
(c) Chocolate bar.
(d) Chiclet gum.

2. How many Jews were sent to Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944?
(a) 60,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 70,000.
(d) 65,000.

3. What condition did Marion have as a result of her eye muscles being unbalanced?
(a) Blind in left eye.
(b) Blurred vision.
(c) Cross eyed.
(d) Blind in right eye.

4. What were the graves that the dead prisoners in Trobitz were buried in called?
(a) Telescope graves.
(b) Contract graves.
(c) Shrivel graves.
(d) Minimal graves.

5. What color was the powder that the doctors sprinkled on Marion's burn on her leg?
(a) Bluish-yellow.
(b) Greenish-black.
(c) Bluish-green.
(d) Greenish-yellow.

6. How much did Marion weigh when she was liberated?
(a) 35 lbs.
(b) 45 lbs.
(c) 50 lbs.
(d) 40 lbs.

7. What did the gas chamber at Auschwitz look like?
(a) Cafeteria.
(b) Barracks.
(c) Public shower.
(d) Public bathroom.

8. How much time had passed between the first time the Blumenthals were in Holland and the second time?
(a) 6 1/2 years.
(b) 7 years.
(c) 7 1/2 years.
(d) 8 years.

9. What river did the train the Blumenthals traveled on cross before reaching Berlin?
(a) Rhine.
(b) Rhone.
(c) Elbe.
(d) Seine.

10. What type of rail car did the Blumenthals ride in on their departure from Holland?
(a) Cattle car.
(b) 2nd class carriage.
(c) 1st class carriage.
(d) 3rd class carriage.

11. What disease was the most prevalent at the camp the Blumenthals lived in Germany?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Dysentary.
(c) Whooping cough.
(d) Typhus.

12. How long were the Jewish in Trobitz required to stay there for quarantine after the war ended?
(a) 5 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 2 months.

13. On what day were the Blumenthals liberated from the Nazis?
(a) April 23rd, 1945.
(b) April 26th, 1945.
(c) April 24th, 1945.
(d) April 25th, 1945.

14. What was the term given to the Jewish people sent to Holland in 1945?
(a) Castaways.
(b) Refugees.
(c) Expatriates.
(d) Displaced persons.

15. How many of the prisoners from the train were eventually buried in Trobitz by the time the quarantine was over?
(a) Over 900.
(b) Over 700.
(c) Over 600.
(d) Over 800.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the prisoners on the train with the Blumenthals died before the liberation?

2. How long did it take the train that the Blumenthals traveled on to reach Berlin?

3. What did Marion's mother find for her family to eat in an abandoned farmhouse after they were liberated?

4. Who wrote "Four Perfect Pebbles"?

5. What was the first new piece of clothing that Marion received while in Amsterdam?

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