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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what is there?
(a) A group of bystanders, who throw food at the prisoners.
(b) Trucks with red crosses painted on them.
(c) New guards.
(d) More priosners.

3. What does the family see on April 7, 1951?
(a) New York.
(b) The Constitution of America.
(c) The Eiffel Tower.
(d) The Statue of Liberty.

4. What do the women who shoveled snow at Augsburg find?
(a) Jewelry.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Money.
(d) Potatoes.

5. On the night of Laura's injury at Auschwitz, what does Elli do?
(a) Remains with Laura.
(b) Keeps praying.
(c) Cries in her bunk alone.
(d) Barely sleeps.

6. At Waldlager, when does Bubi begin talking?
(a) After the guards disappear.
(b) When Elli speaks of their father.
(c) When Laura brings him soup.
(d) After Elli helps him by giving him bread.

7. What is Elli's punishment for visiting her mother every morning at the infirmary?
(a) A whipping.
(b) Cleaning all night.
(c) Not eating for a day.
(d) Kneeling for twenty-four hours.

8. How do Elli, Laura, and Bubi make the trip home?
(a) With help from American soldiers and a train.
(b) In a bus.
(c) On an airplane.
(d) With money from the locals.

9. 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) Many attemped suicide.
(d) Several laughed.

10. Immediately following their freedom, how does a man who spoke Yiddish help?
(a) He translates for the passengers.
(b) He relays doctors' orders to the passengers.
(c) He gives the passengers food.
(d) He brings the passengers clothing.

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

12. When the train traveling from the Muhldorf train station stops near a cornfield, what do many prisoners do?
(a) Run for help.
(b) Hide between the stalks.
(c) Eat the corn.
(d) Fight the guards.

13. On the day of the scheduled decimation, what happens?
(a) The women revolt.
(b) The guards do not come to work.
(c) The guards threaten other punishments.
(d) The women are forced to work as usual.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Laura's assignment at Waldlager?

2. When an SS guard arrives at Augsburg, what happens to women's food?

3. How does Elli respond to the local woman guessing her age?

4. How does Elli get Laura out of the infirmary?

5. In "Herr Zerkubel" how are the women sorted?

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