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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a young girl do during a riot?
(a) Throws tables over.
(b) Beats her fists at a guard.
(c) Breaks down a door.
(d) Screams that someone is killing her mother.

2. When Elli returns to her school, what award does she learn she received?
(a) She did not receive an award.
(b) Honor Scroll.
(c) First place.
(d) Honorable Mention.

3. What does Elli learn from the town crier?
(a) All Jews are to stay inside during the day.
(b) Jews are not to speak to Christians.
(c) Jews are not to shop at the grocery market.
(d) All Jews are to wear a yellow cloth star.

4. As Bubi leaves his mother at Auschwitz, what does she see?
(a) Another prisoner takes his food.
(b) Bubi takes off his shoes.
(c) A SS guard knocks him down.
(d) Bubi is starting to cry.

5. On what does Elli's poetry focus?
(a) Love.
(b) Hard work.
(c) The darker sides of life.
(d) Flowers and nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the penalty for Christians who socialize with Jews?

2. What do Marta Kalman and her mother bring Elli?

3. What surrendered possession bothers Elli the most?

4. Where does Jancsi want to meet Elli?

5. What does the town crier announce as forbidden access for Jews?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Elli and her mother go to the cemetery before leaving for the ghetto?

2. Why does Aunt Serena become so agitated the night before they leave for work camp?

3. Why is Bubi's reaction to the law concerning yellow stars typical of his personality?

4. What is Bubi's relationship with other people?

5. What does the new rule that Jews are not to socialize at all with Christians do to Elli and her family?

6. How do Hindi, Suri Schreiber, and Aunt Celia help Laura and Elli on their first day at Auschwitz?

7. What reactions does Elli's poetry bring from her parents?

8. Why does Elli's father become like "a statue of stone" as the family prepares for Nagymagyar?

9. At the start of her story, how do Elli's actions as her life starts to change indirectly describe her?

10. What is the mood when the women smell gas behind closed doors?

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