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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. After finding their cousins, where are Laura and Elli directed?
(a) To the soup kitchen.
(b) To the infirmary.
(c) To a "lake."
(d) To a "bed."

2. What does the town crier announce concerning Jews and socialization?
(a) Jews are not allowed to speak to anyone.
(b) Jews are not allowed to look at anyone.
(c) Jews are not allowed to socialize at all with Christians.
(d) Jews are not allowed to talk about Christians.

3. What happens to the women in the showers at Auschwitz?
(a) They are given soap.
(b) They are sprayed with poison.
(c) They are blasted with cold water.
(d) They are spashed with hot water.

4. What does Elli do with her poetry journal when she sees a young mother denied possession of a single photo?
(a) Puts it between layers of bedding.
(b) Hides it.
(c) Places it under her shirt.
(d) Burns it.

5. After their showers at Auschwitz, what do Elli and her mother desperately want?
(a) Water.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aunt Serena do with dishes before leaving on May 2?

2. What do Elli and her mother do with their first serving of food at Auschwitz?

3. How was food distributed at Auschwitz?

4. What is Laura's reaction about Aunt Serene's orders to go to a side different from Laura's during selection?

5. Where are many families sleeping in "The Ghetto"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the irony of Laura's excitement about moving to a work camp?

4. What does the color 'yellow' symbolize in Elli's life?

5. What is Laura's fear as she and Elli leave Auschwitz?

6. Why do the guards hit the women who bring blankets outside?

7. Why would Bubi's father ignore his story concerning Budapest?

8. What is ironic about the guards telling the prisoners to leave their possessions on the cattle cars?

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

10. What honesty does the chapter "Teen Vanity" bring to the book?

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