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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz the second time, what do the inmates receive?
(a) Water.
(b) A tattoo.
(c) Extra blankets.
(d) Food.

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

3. When the prisoners leaves the cars for the final time, what do the local people do?
(a) Give them aid.
(b) Push the train cars away.
(c) Take them home.
(d) Run from them.

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

5. Why does an SS officer severely beat Elli?
(a) Elli gives him a nasty look.
(b) Elli argues with him.
(c) Elli does not give him her shoes.
(d) Elli jumps on him to defend her mother.

6. How do the guards carry out an act of decimation?
(a) Prisoners form a line, and every tenth one is shot.
(b) Prisoners are forced awake for days.
(c) Prisoners work without food or water.
(d) Prisoners must choose which one dies.

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

8. Where did Bubi's father die?
(a) Treblinka.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Bergen-Belsen.
(d) Sobibor.

9. How does Elli respond to the local woman guessing her age?
(a) "This too shall pass."
(b) "It is always night."
(c) "I am tired."
(d) "I have lived a thousand years."

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

11. Later, after she has the clothes for a bit, how does Elli feel in her new clothes she receives at Augsburg?
(a) Pretty.
(b) Guilty.
(c) Proud.
(d) Hurt.

12. After Elli's last train ride under the German soldiers' control, who is there when the doors open?
(a) More German soldiers.
(b) Josef Mengele.
(c) Local townpeople.
(d) American soldiers.

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

14. Who plans to help the family in New York?
(a) Their uncle.
(b) A cousin.
(c) Sara.
(d) No one.

15. Immediately following their freedom, what confuses Elli and the other passengers?
(a) The men offer them food.
(b) The men tell them to get off the train.
(c) The men speak Polish.
(d) The men who opened the doors speak a different language.

Short Answer Questions

1. When an SS guard arrives at Augsburg, what do the military guards begin doing?

2. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz the second time, what happens to the bed above Elli and Laura?

3. How do Elli, Laura, and Bubi make the trip home?

4. How does Elli feel about completing a complex part for her work at Augsburg?

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

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