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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 first camp Marion's family was sent to?
(a) Bernberg.
(b) Bergen-Belsen.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Westerbork.

2. How did Marion sleep her first weeks at the second concentration camp?
(a) Hiding under her bed.
(b) Curled in the fetal position.
(c) Wrapped in her mother's arms.
(d) Huddled under a stack of blankets.

3. Marion's hometown was between which two towns in Germany?
(a) Bremen and Jorsfelde.
(b) Hanover and Treptow.
(c) Hanover and Bremen.
(d) Bremen and Treptow.

4. How many people were forced to live in the barracks at the second concentration camp?
(a) 750.
(b) 650.
(c) 600.
(d) 700.

5. What middle name were all Jewish women forced to take in August, 1938?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Marion.
(d) Sarah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Marion's childhood hobby while living at the camps?

2. In what year did the Nazi party become the largest party in Germany?

3. What did Marion call her paternal grandparents?

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

5. Where did Marion's father move her family after the death of his parents?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was life in the Sternlager section of Bergen-Belsen considered better than life in the other sections?

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

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

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

6. When and why was war declared on Germany?

7. What did Hitler do in 1923 that caused an uproar?

8. What was life like for the German-Jewish refugees of the early 1930s?

9. What were Ruth's duties while at Westerbork?

10. Why did Hitler's attack against Jews seem strange?

(see the answer keys)

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