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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What convinces Elli of her father's death?
(a) A dream.
(b) Another prisoner's message.
(c) The sunset.
(d) A guard.

2. When Elli arrived at Auschwitz the second time, what are the new barracks like?
(a) They are made of metal.
(b) They are tiers of bunks.
(c) They are cleaner than their previous ones.
(d) They have no blankets.

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

4. What time do Elli and Laura take a daily lunch break?
(a) Noon.
(b) They never receive a lunch break.
(c) 11:00 a.m.
(d) 1:30 p.m.

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

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

7. When Elli returns from her punishment for retrieving her coat, what has her mother done?
(a) Found Elli's coat.
(b) Saved her soup for Elli.
(c) Stolen an extra blanket for Elli.
(d) Kept bread for Elli.

8. How does Elli feel about completing a complex part for her work at Augsburg?
(a) She is sad.
(b) She is relieved.
(c) She is toiling against herself.
(d) She is exhausted from thinking.

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

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

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

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

13. What is Laura's assignment at Waldlager?
(a) Working in the kitchen.
(b) Organizing clothes.
(c) Cleaning the stables.
(d) Scrubbing the floors.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Elli's punishment for retrieving her coat?

2. After the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what happens as the prisoners stand outside the cars?

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

4. Why does an SS officer severely beat Elli?

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

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