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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the train traveling from the Muhldorf train station stops near a cornfield, what does Laura do?
(a) Cries on the tracks.
(b) Finds food.
(c) Searches for Bubi.
(d) Drinks water.

2. After the women waited to travel from Plaszow, what news do they receive?
(a) Thirty more people will be added to each car.
(b) Food will be distributed soon.
(c) Dr. Mengele is dead.
(d) People will be let off soon.

3. What do the soldiers remove from the train cars?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Valuables.
(c) Corpses.
(d) Bibles.

4. At what point does Elli say she is a true concentration camp inmate?
(a) After a month.
(b) The first day.
(c) At seven and a half weeks.
(d) When a friend dies.

5. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz the second time, what does she realize?
(a) Hitler is not dead.
(b) Laura is quite ill.
(c) She cannot live much longer.
(d) She is alone.

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

7. After the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what do the planes overhead do?
(a) Fly away.
(b) Fire on the train formation.
(c) Take pictures.
(d) Drop bombs.

8. When do Elli, Laura, and Bubi begin making the trip home?
(a) 1944.
(b) June of 1945.
(c) Fall of 1945.
(d) Winter of 1946.

9. When the guards give the women new clothes at Augsburg, what does Elli receive?
(a) Comfortable shoes and a warm coat.
(b) A rough dress and small shoes.
(c) A pink dress and worn coat.
(d) Ugly pants and a thin shirt.

10. How is Laura severely injured at Auschwitz?
(a) A guard shot her foot.
(b) A train ran her over.
(c) A soldier beat her head.
(d) A bed pinned Laura in an unnatural position.

11. Where does Bubi receive permission to attend school after the war?
(a) Paris.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Palestine.
(d) New York.

12. What do the local people say concerning the concentration camps?
(a) They could not break into them.
(b) They knew nothing of them.
(c) They sneaked food in them.
(d) They stole money from them.

13. As the women traveled, what makes them feel better?
(a) Food.
(b) People cheering them on.
(c) Sleep.
(d) The cooling air temperature.

14. After the women's first night at Augsburg, how do the women react to their treatment?
(a) They jumped with excitement.
(b) Several cried.
(c) Several laughed.
(d) Many attemped suicide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Elli's last train ride under the German soldiers' control, who is there when the doors open?

2. On the night of Laura's injury at Auschwitz, what does Elli do?

3. Why does an SS officer severely beat Elli?

4. When Elli arrived at Auschwitz the second time, what are the new barracks like?

5. What does Laura do after she sees a worm in her soup?

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