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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 did the SS Guards call to the prisoners on the train each night?
(a) Taten Raus.
(b) Taten Rous.
(c) Totan Raush.
(d) Toten Raus.

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

3. How long did it take the train that the Blumenthals traveled on to reach Berlin?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 4 weeks.
(d) 3 weeks.

4. Where did Marion and her family go after leaving their family's home in Amsterdam?
(a) A refugee camp in Gouda.
(b) An apartment in Amsterdam.
(c) A retreat in the mountains.
(d) A Jewish convalescent home in Amsterdam.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Jews actually made the transfer to Palestine?

2. What did Marion's father trade for extra bread rations at the camp in Germany?

3. What language did Marion learn at the home that she and her brother were sent to a month after his birthday?

4. What German town did the train reach by April 15th, 1945?

5. When did the Blumenthals receive permission to leave the camp in Holland?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the traveling conditions going to Bergen-Belsen like?

2. How did Marion feel about returning to Holland?

3. What led the Blumenthals to leave Westerbork?

4. What happened after the prisoners were liberated?

5. What was the main reason that so many prisoners were evacuated from Bergen-Belsen?

6. How did Marion feel when she received her first piece of new clothing?

7. How was Marion's burn treated after the liberation?

8. What did Ruth say was the only way the family was able to survive the early months at Bergen-Belsen?

9. What did Marion's mother find in the farmhouse they foraged?

10. What did the German guards order the prisoners to do each day while on the train?

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