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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Laura do after she sees a worm in her soup?
(a) Continues to eat it.
(b) Gives it away.
(c) Vomits.
(d) Dumps it out.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is Elli, Laura and Bubi's home like after the war?
(a) Completely torn down.
(b) Full of other people's belongings.
(c) Exactly as they left it.
(d) Empty except for piles of human excrement.

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

12. During the women's first night at Augsburg, how do guards feed them?
(a) The same as always.
(b) A reasonable amount of good food.
(c) They were not fed.
(d) Very poorly.

13. After the women's first night at Augsburg, how do the women react to their treatment?
(a) They jumped with excitement.
(b) Many attemped suicide.
(c) Several cried.
(d) Several laughed.

14. How do the guards carry out an act of decimation?
(a) Prisoners work without food or water.
(b) Prisoners must choose which one dies.
(c) Prisoners are forced awake for days.
(d) Prisoners form a line, and every tenth one is shot.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the soldiers remove from the train cars?

2. The women learn that the civilians killed earlier were part of ___________.

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

4. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz for the second time, what does Laura continually tell Elli?

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

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