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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. At what point does Elli say she is a true concentration camp inmate?
(a) After a month.
(b) At seven and a half weeks.
(c) When a friend dies.
(d) The first day.

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. What happens to those who remain in the infirmary longer than three weeks at Auschwitz?
(a) They are "removed."
(b) They are taken to a different camp.
(c) They are given easier work.
(d) They are put back in the barracks.

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

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

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

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

13. After discussing Elli's age, what does the local woman do as she leaves?
(a) She cries.
(b) She pats Elli.
(c) She makes the sign of the cross.
(d) She hugs Elli.

14. A local woman thinks that Elli is __________years old.
(a) Sixty-two.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Thirty-nine.

15. On the day of the scheduled decimation, what happens?
(a) The women revolt.
(b) The women are forced to work as usual.
(c) The guards do not come to work.
(d) The guards threaten other punishments.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the war, how does Laura earn money for food?

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

3. What do the women who shoveled snow at Augsburg find?

4. When the guards give the women new clothes at Augsburg, what does Elli receive?

5. Later, after she has the clothes for a bit, how does Elli feel in her new clothes she receives at Augsburg?

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