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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 12-34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elli learn from the town crier?
(a) All Jews are to wear a yellow cloth star.
(b) Jews are not to speak to Christians.
(c) All Jews are to stay inside during the day.
(d) Jews are not to shop at the grocery market.

2. What does Elli's father show her in the basement?
(a) Where he hid her yellow bicycle.
(b) Where he buried the family's valuable jewelry.
(c) Where to keep her poetry and money.
(d) Where to hide from soldiers.

3. At the start of the book, why do the Hungarian police bother Elli's family?
(a) The police have complete control over the Jewish population.
(b) The police know that Bubi is smart.
(c) The police know the family has hidden money.
(d) The police do not like Elli's father.

4. What future plans does Elli have for Budapest?
(a) To marry there.
(b) To do research there.
(c) To attend medical school there.
(d) To live there while she attends seminary.

5. How does Elli handle being forced to wear the yellow star?
(a) She refuses to go out.
(b) She wears it with pride.
(c) She cries when she goes outside.
(d) She covers it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Elli's father think ambition is a desirable trait?

2. When Elli returns to her school, what award does she learn she received?

3. How does Elli's father react to Bubi's story from the middle of the night?

4. Why does Elli believe her mother slights her?

5. What story does Bubbi tell his family in the middle of the night?

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