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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 new piece of clothing that Marion received while in Amsterdam?
(a) Striped sweater.
(b) Flower patterned sundress.
(c) Flower patterned sweater.
(d) Striped sundress.

2. What happened to Albala's son?
(a) He died of whooping cough.
(b) He died of dysentary.
(c) He died of typhus.
(d) He died of Influenza.

3. When did Marion's father die?
(a) June 8th, 1945.
(b) June 10th, 1945.
(c) June 7th, 1945.
(d) June 9th, 1945.

4. What did Marion's father trade for extra bread rations at the camp in Germany?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Alchohol.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Clothing.

5. Where did Marion's mother get water from while on the train after leaving the camp in Germany?
(a) A creek on the side of the tracks.
(b) The engineer.
(c) A fellow prisoner.
(d) An SS guard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of getting the disease that was prevalent at the camp in Germany?

2. What German city did Hitler take refuge in?

3. Who wrote "Four Perfect Pebbles"?

4. What were the graves that the dead prisoners in Trobitz were buried in called?

5. What did the SS Guards call to the prisoners on the train each night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why were the liberated prisoners quarantined in Trobitz?

4. What happened to the prisoners when they arrived at the train?

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

6. What did the prisoners think the train was taking them to?

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

8. What were children in Eastern Europe sometimes given to nourish their bodies?

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

10. What led the Blumenthals to leave Westerbork?

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