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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does the family wait at their home after the war?
(a) To see their friends return.
(b) To see if father returns.
(c) To find their buried belongings.
(d) To unearth their neighbors' belongings.

7. When women strip for guards, what is the one possession they retain?
(a) Their blankets.
(b) Their underwear.
(c) Their socks.
(d) Their shoes.

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

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

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

11. What is Elli's punishment for retrieving her coat?
(a) Standing in a hall all day without water or food.
(b) Kneeling on uncooked rice for an hour.
(c) Scrubbing bathroom floors.
(d) Running in the snow.

12. At the Muhldorf train station, Elli and Laura lose sight of whom?
(a) Each other.
(b) Bubi.
(c) Aunt Celia.
(d) The SS guards.

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

14. After the war, how does Laura earn money for food?
(a) Translating papers.
(b) Cleaning homes.
(c) Sewing for Russian girls.
(d) Tutoring students.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the inmates travel, why do they struggle to breathe?

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

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

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

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