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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the attempted uprising, what rumor do the women hear?
(a) Guards are sending them to the gas chambers.
(b) Americans are coming.
(c) Hitler is dead.
(d) Food will stop being served.

2. How does Elli feel in her home town after the war?
(a) As if she had never left.
(b) As if she is not a Jew.
(c) As if she does not belong.
(d) As if she is in danger.

3. During the women's first night at Augsburg, how do guards feed them?
(a) A reasonable amount of good food.
(b) Very poorly.
(c) They were not fed.
(d) The same as always.

4. On the train, why could a girl not see?
(a) She was shot in the eye.
(b) She had poison in her eye.
(c) She had a needle in her eye.
(d) She stabbed herself.

5. During the rainstorm, what does the commander tell the women?
(a) To continue working.
(b) To work faster.
(c) To be quiet.
(d) To go inside.

6. When the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what do the guards tell the prisoners?
(a) To lie to locals about their situations.
(b) To steal food if they want some.
(c) To come to the window of the cars for hot soup.
(d) To stay on the trains.

7. What is Elli, Laura and Bubi's home like after the war?
(a) Completely torn down.
(b) Full of other people's belongings.
(c) Empty except for piles of human excrement.
(d) Exactly as they left it.

8. When the women arrive in Augsburg, what do the SS guards immediately do?
(a) Leave.
(b) Force them to strip.
(c) Give them bread.
(d) Beat them.

9. What does Laura do after she sees a worm in her soup?
(a) Continues to eat it.
(b) Gives it away.
(c) Dumps it out.
(d) Vomits.

10. How does Elli first feel in her new clothes she receives at Augsburg?
(a) Shocked.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Ugly.
(d) Ashamed.

11. How does Elli feel about completing a complex part for her work at Augsburg?
(a) She is exhausted from thinking.
(b) She is sad.
(c) She is relieved.
(d) She is toiling against herself.

12. Why does the family wait at their home after the war?
(a) To see their friends return.
(b) To see if father returns.
(c) To find their buried belongings.
(d) To unearth their neighbors' belongings.

13. At the Muhldorf train station, Elli and Laura lose sight of whom?
(a) Each other.
(b) The SS guards.
(c) Aunt Celia.
(d) Bubi.

14. When a man is shot and left for dead, what does he do before guards finally kill him?
(a) Shoots a guard.
(b) Runs down the tracks.
(c) Opens the door.
(d) Hurls himself at an SS guard.

15. When Elli arrived at Auschwitz the second time, what are the new barracks like?
(a) They are cleaner than their previous ones.
(b) They have no blankets.
(c) They are tiers of bunks.
(d) They are made of metal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who plans to help the family in New York?

2. How does Laura make a lamp for the Sabbath at Augsburg?

3. After the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, how does Laura behave?

4. What is Elli's punishment for retrieving her coat?

5. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz for the second time, what does Laura continually tell Elli?

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