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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elli do with her poetry journal when she sees a young mother denied possession of a single photo?
(a) Puts it between layers of bedding.
(b) Places it under her shirt.
(c) Hides it.
(d) Burns it.

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

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

4. Whom does Elli's family share a house with in "The Ghetto"?
(a) Golub.
(b) Blumenfeld.
(c) Glick.
(d) Flohr.

5. For what does Old Mr. Stern pray?
(a) Safety for children.
(b) Everyone's safe return.
(c) The long road that lies ahead.
(d) Courage and bravery for the men.

6. Where does Elli finally place her poetry journal before leaving for the work camps?
(a) Buries it in the synogogue.
(b) Leaves it on her bed.
(c) Puts it in a trash can.
(d) Gives it to Pista Szivos.

7. How does Laura demonstrate affection?
(a) Laura is not demonstrative with affection.
(b) Laura reads stories at night.
(c) Laura writes her children notes.
(d) Laura gives lots of hugs and kisses.

8. What does a young girl do during a riot?
(a) Beats her fists at a guard.
(b) Screams that someone is killing her mother.
(c) Breaks down a door.
(d) Throws tables over.

9. How was food distributed at Auschwitz?
(a) Only in the morning.
(b) A single portion to five people.
(c) At the prisoners' beds.
(d) In brown bags.

10. Where do Bonnie and Elli go to swim?
(a) A neighbor's pool.
(b) The town pool.
(c) The Danube.
(d) An ocean.

11. What is the setting as the story opens?
(a) Nagymagyar.
(b) The town of Somorja in 1943.
(c) The past, in the ghetto.
(d) Elli's school in 1945.

12. Why does Laura hate leaving her sister behind at Auschwitz?
(a) Laura cared for Celia's children.
(b) Celia is weak minded.
(c) Celia suffers from diarrhea.
(d) Laura took care of Celia.

13. Under what conditions does Elli leave her school?
(a) With taunts referring to her Jewish background.
(b) With a graduation party.
(c) With little notice.
(d) With her classmates crying.

14. At the start of the book, how does Elli spend her days?
(a) Reading and writing for school.
(b) Helping her father at the restaurant.
(c) Sitting at home with her mother.
(d) In typical pursuits of young girls of her age.

15. What does the town crier announce concerning Jews and socialization?
(a) Jews are not allowed to speak to anyone.
(b) Jews are not allowed to socialize at all with Christians.
(c) Jews are not allowed to look at anyone.
(d) Jews are not allowed to talk about Christians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the town crier announce as forbidden access for Jews?

2. Why does a girl have blood running down her leg?

3. During selection, what warning does Elli receive?

4. Where do Laura and Elli visit before they traveled to Nagymagyar?

5. What place does Elli describe as "the most notorious forced labor camp in Poland"?

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