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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During selection, what warning does Elli receive?
(a) To keep her nails clean.
(b) To steal food.
(c) To dye her hair blonder.
(d) To say she is sixteen.

2. What do the guards do with all the Jews' books, documents, and photos?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Collect them.
(c) Sort them into piles.
(d) Put them in boxes.

3. What story does Bubbi tell his family in the middle of the night?
(a) Nazi soldiers in Budapest.
(b) The war ending.
(c) Hungarian police leaving their town.
(d) Hitler coming to their town.

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

5. When the guards force the women outside for roll call, what does Elli wish she had thought about earlier?
(a) Keeping her food.
(b) Taking a hat.
(c) Wearing her shoes.
(d) Bringing a blanket.

6. What are Suri and Hindi doing on June 9 and 10?
(a) Stealing warm clothes.
(b) Tricking a guard.
(c) Searching for girls to trade places.
(d) Hiding their mother.

7. When Elli and Laura arrive at the waiting cart for Nagymagar, why are the soldiers angry?
(a) Two Jewish females remain free in an Aryan town.
(b) One Jewish family brought too many belongings.
(c) The Jews are loud and angry.
(d) The firewood will not remain situated.

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

9. What place does Elli describe as "the most notorious forced labor camp in Poland"?
(a) Gross-Rosen.
(b) Ohrdruf.
(c) Soldau.
(d) Plaszow.

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

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

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

13. How far is Nagymagyar from Elli's home?
(a) A hundred millimeters.
(b) Fourteen kilometers.
(c) Nine kilometers.
(d) A nautical mile.

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

15. During selection, to what side do the guards send Aunt Serene?
(a) To the left.
(b) Back to the cattle cars.
(c) To the right.
(d) To a factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Laura's reaction about Aunt Serene's orders to go to a side different from Laura's during selection?

2. Who is head of the barracks and inmates at Auschwitz?

3. What bothers Elli the most concerning her surrendered possession?

4. How do many families cook in "The Ghetto"?

5. What does Elli's father show her in the basement?

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