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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. Who is Pinhas?
(a) A boy who helps Elli's family.
(b) A boy who likes Elli.
(c) A popular cook in the ghetto.
(d) A kind guard in the ghetto.

2. How does Bubi manage to return from Budapest after the story breaks in the papers?
(a) Another father from the town helps Bubi.
(b) Bubi doesn't return.
(c) Bubi's father gets him.
(d) Bubi returns on his own.

3. As a young girl screams, what do the female prisoners begin to smell?
(a) Vomit.
(b) Rain.
(c) Dinner.
(d) Gas.

4. Why does Elli's father think ambition is a desirable trait?
(a) Ambition makes others like you.
(b) Ambition shows you care.
(c) Ambition can make a person accomplish more.
(d) Ambition gives others confidence.

5. What place does Elli describe as "the most notorious forced labor camp in Poland"?
(a) Plaszow.
(b) Soldau.
(c) Ohrdruf.
(d) Gross-Rosen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elli do with her poetry journal when she sees a young mother denied possession of a single photo?

2. Why does Elli believe her mother slights her?

3. What is the setting as the story opens?

4. What happens to the women in the showers at Auschwitz?

5. For what does Old Mr. Stern pray?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Laura's "lack of affection."

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does the failed date with Jansci affect Elli?

8. Why do soldiers make members of the ghetto surrender all books, documents, and photos?

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

10. What happens to the prisoners when they arrive at Auschwitz?

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