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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 183 through 223.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When women strip for guards, what is the one possession they retain?
(a) Their blankets.
(b) Their underwear.
(c) Their socks.
(d) Their shoes.

2. What does Mr. Scheidel bring Elli?
(a) Clippings of the newspaper.
(b) Potato scraps.
(c) Crusts of bread.
(d) Raw meat.

3. What do Elli and Laura do the night before the scheduled decimation?
(a) Read a prayer book.
(b) Give away their blankets.
(c) Sleep extra.
(d) Eat their reserves.

4. What do the aunt and cousins say about Elli and her mother's reaction to their first serving of food at Auschwitz?
(a) To send it back to the kitchen.
(b) To give it to them.
(c) To try eating more again.
(d) To throw it away.

5. Why are the women often forced to strip?
(a) For new clothes.
(b) For new prisoners.
(c) For showers and examinations.
(d) For numbering.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the start of the book, how does Elli spend her days?

2. The night before they are to leave for work camp, what is Elli's final image of her father?

3. During the rainstorm, what does the commander tell the women?

4. When the train traveling from the Muhldorf train station stops near a cornfield, what does Laura do?

5. Why does Laura put a piece of cloth around Bubi's head?

(see the answer key)

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