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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 happens to the bed above Elli and Laura?
(a) It is taken away.
(b) It has a broken plank.
(c) It is lumpy.
(d) It shatters.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens the day the food arrives early at Laura and Elli's work?
(a) The food becomes putrid in the hot sun.
(b) Animals eat the food.
(c) The food turns cold.
(d) Other prisoners steal the food.

8. What happens to Laura as she struggles because of her partial paralysis?
(a) Laura knocks food over.
(b) A guard cruelly twists her arm.
(c) A guard kicks her down.
(d) Laura falls over.

9. What is discovered when the women arrive at Camp Landsberg?
(a) Camp Landsberg is full of men.
(b) Too many women have died.
(c) The women are too weak to work.
(d) Camp Landsberg is filled to capacity.

10. How does Laura pass roll call with her injury?
(a) Laura stands only when guards are present.
(b) Laura sits down.
(c) Elli bribes the guard.
(d) Elli and friends prop her up.

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

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

13. What do Elli and Laura do the night before the scheduled decimation?
(a) Sleep extra.
(b) Read a prayer book.
(c) Give away their blankets.
(d) Eat their reserves.

14. After the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what happens as the prisoners stand outside the cars?
(a) Gunfire erupts.
(b) Bombs drop.
(c) SS soldiers run away.
(d) Trains crash.

15. How does Elli get Laura out of the infirmary?
(a) With help from other women.
(b) By making Laura walk.
(c) By carrying her.
(d) With a cart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Laura put a piece of cloth around Bubi's head?

2. What happens to those who remain in the infirmary longer than three weeks at Auschwitz?

3. When the prisoners leaves the cars for the final time, what do the local people do?

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

5. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz the second time, what do the inmates receive?

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