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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 do the aunt and cousins say about Elli and her mother's reaction to their first serving of food at Auschwitz?
(a) To try eating more again.
(b) To give it to them.
(c) To send it back to the kitchen.
(d) To throw it away.

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

3. What is each family supposed to take to Nagymagyar?
(a) One room of furniture.
(b) Schoolwork.
(c) A bag of clothes.
(d) Only what they could carry.

4. The night before they are to leave for work camp, what is Elli's final image of her father?
(a) Laura hugging him.
(b) Only the shape of him riding away.
(c) Him kissing her goodbye.
(d) Him patting Bubi.

5. How does Elli's father react to Bubi's story from the middle of the night?
(a) Bubi's father makes plans.
(b) Bubi's father cries.
(c) Bubi's father ignores him.
(d) Bubi's father keeps him at home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting as the story opens?

2. How does Elli's planned meeting with Jansci occur?

3. Where does Jancsi want to meet Elli?

4. For what does Old Mr. Stern pray?

5. At the start of the book, how does Elli spend her days?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why is the first chapter titled "The City of My Dreams"?

7. Why does Dr. Mengele tell Laura that Elli needs her more than Aunt Serene does?

8. From Elli's father's stance on ambition, what do readers learn about him?

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

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

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