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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 was the name of Marion's hometown in Germany?
(a) Tegel.
(b) Hoya.
(c) Cladow.
(d) Neukolln.

2. When did the Blumenthal family receive their American visas?
(a) January 1940.
(b) March 1940.
(c) February 1940.
(d) April 1940.

3. What did Marion's father always bring to her and her mother when they were able to meet up at the concentration camp?
(a) Food.
(b) Water.
(c) Socks.
(d) Cigarettes.

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

5. In what year was Marion's brother born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1935.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the family that lived in the apartment above the Blumenthal's in Germany in 1938?

2. How many people were forced to live in the barracks at the second concentration camp?

3. Where did the Blumenthal family go after leaving Hanover in 1938?

4. What was Marion's father's first name?

5. What did Marion feel was the worst thing at the second concentration camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was life like for the German-Jewish refugees of the mid to late 1930s?

2. What was life like for the Blumenthal family in Holland?

3. When did Hitler begin his racist activities in Germany?

4. Why did Marion's father dispose of his service revolver?

5. What did the government levy against the Jews on November 12th, 1938?

6. How did Marion's parents meet?

7. Why was finding four perfect pebbles so important to Marion?

8. Why were prisoners required to wear the star of David?

9. What did Hitler do to Polish Jews on October 28, 1938?

10. How did Marion's family keep their business open after Hitler ordered the boycott of Jewish businesses?

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