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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. When an SS guard arrives at Augsburg, what happens to women's food?
(a) It stops being served.
(b) It becomes better.
(c) It remains unchanged.
(d) It is downgraded.

2. When the inmates travel, why do they struggle to breathe?
(a) The heat and lack of air.
(b) Gas filled the air.
(c) The snow.
(d) The closed cars.

3. How does Elli respond to the local woman guessing her age?
(a) "I have lived a thousand years."
(b) "It is always night."
(c) "This too shall pass."
(d) "I am tired."

4. After the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, how does Laura behave?
(a) She refuses to lie down.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She cries.
(d) She becomes delirious.

5. When the women arrive in Augsburg, what do the SS guards immediately do?
(a) Give them bread.
(b) Beat them.
(c) Leave.
(d) Force them to strip.

Short Answer Questions

1. Immediately following their freedom, how does a man who spoke Yiddish help?

2. What does Laura keep wrapped around her foot?

3. What is Elli's punishment for visiting her mother every morning at the infirmary?

4. On the night of Laura's injury at Auschwitz, what does Elli do?

5. How does Elli feel about completing a complex part for her work at Augsburg?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bitton-Jackson include great details about the family's trip back to their home?

2. What does the interaction between Bubi and Laura at the Muhldorf train station show readers?

3. At first, how do the military guards treat the women, and how do the women respond at Augsburg?

4. What are Elli's mixed feelings concerning her new clothes at Augsburg?

5. What is significant about Elli's tattoo at Auschwitz?

6. Why are the military guards so confused at Augsburg, and what does this say about Elli's condition?

7. Why does Elli call her and her mother's reunion a "divine miracle"?

8. Why does the arrival of an SS guard change the women's conditions at Augsburg?

9. What is the difficulty the women face after the group of men and women from the uprising are killed?

10. Why do Elli, Bubi, and Laura vow never to separate again?

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