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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Laura's reaction about Aunt Serene's orders to go to a side different from Laura's during selection?
(a) Laura keeps quiet about her sister.
(b) Laura begs to go with her sister.
(c) Laura chases after her sister.
(d) Laura hides behind Elli.

2. What purpose does the river in town often serve?
(a) A tourist attraction.
(b) Watering herds of animals.
(c) Fish, for food.
(d) Washing laundry.

3. What happens to the women in the showers at Auschwitz?
(a) They are sprayed with poison.
(b) They are blasted with cold water.
(c) They are spashed with hot water.
(d) They are given soap.

4. How does Elli feel as she travels away from Auschwitz?
(a) Scared.
(b) Hopeful.
(c) Tired.
(d) Overwhelmed.

5. What do Elli and Laura first notice about "The Ghetto"?
(a) Hundreds of people are crammed into a small area.
(b) The place is empty except for guards.
(c) No one else obeys orders.
(d) Everyone is crying.

6. Why does a girl have blood running down her leg?
(a) She started her period.
(b) A guard shot her.
(c) She cut her leg.
(d) She hurt herself at work.

7. What do Elli and Laura do on June 9 and 10?
(a) Take blankets.
(b) Clean cattle cars.
(c) Begin work in the kitchen.
(d) March away from Auschwitz.

8. On what does Elli's poetry focus?
(a) Love.
(b) The darker sides of life.
(c) Hard work.
(d) Flowers and nature.

9. The night before the men are to leave for work camp, what does Laura pack for their trip?
(a) Shirts and warm pants.
(b) Reading materials.
(c) Food and other supplies.
(d) Extra shoes and socks.

10. What do Marta Kalman and her mother bring Elli?
(a) Chicken, eggs, and cornbread.
(b) Flour, a goose, and eggs.
(c) Flour, duck, and lettuce.
(d) Salad and dressing.

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

12. What happens on March 27?
(a) Guards order all Jewish residents to give up possessions of value.
(b) Bubi comes home from Budapest.
(c) Elli's father makes documents for each family member.
(d) Laura falls ill.

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

14. What bothers Elli the most concerning her surrendered possession?
(a) She saw a lack of communication with others.
(b) She had hope for a future from it.
(c) She never rode it.
(d) She knew it was expensive.

15. As the guards order women to take their blankets inside, what do they do to the women?
(a) Hit them on the head.
(b) Steal their food.
(c) Shoot at them.
(d) Slap their wrists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elli learn from the town crier?

2. Under what conditions does Elli leave her school?

3. How does Bubi manage to return from Budapest after the story breaks in the papers?

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

5. What does Aunt Celia do on June 9 and 10?

(see the answer keys)

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