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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 for the second time, what does Laura continually tell Elli?
(a) To get her water.
(b) Elli should find Bubi.
(c) She can't go on.
(d) To survive.

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

3. What does Laura keep wrapped around her foot?
(a) A necklace.
(b) A compress.
(c) A shoelace.
(d) A kerchief.

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

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

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

7. When an SS guard arrives at Augsburg, how does the women's treatment change?
(a) Their treatment becomes worse.
(b) Their treatment becomes better.
(c) Their treatment does not change.
(d) Their food rations increase, as does their work.

8. In "Herr Zerkubel" how are the women sorted?
(a) By age.
(b) By height.
(c) By weight.
(d) By hair and eye color.

9. When an SS guard arrives at Augsburg, what happens to women's food?
(a) It stops being served.
(b) It is downgraded.
(c) It becomes better.
(d) It remains unchanged.

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

11. If Elli and her mother fail to keep pace at work, what is to be their punishment?
(a) Death.
(b) A standing stall.
(c) Reduced food rations.
(d) Whipping.

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

13. When the women leave Plaszow, how do the guards force the inmates to travel?
(a) One hundred to a car.
(b) Without dinner.
(c) Nude.
(d) With new shoes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Laura pass roll call with her injury?

3. When the train traveling from the Muhldorf train station stops near a cornfield, what do many prisoners do?

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

5. When the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what do the guards tell the prisoners?

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