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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. How does Elli feel in her home town after the war?
(a) As if she had never left.
(b) As if she does not belong.
(c) As if she is in danger.
(d) As if she is not a Jew.

2. Where does Bubi receive permission to attend school after the war?
(a) Palestine.
(b) New York.
(c) Paris.
(d) Chicago.

3. How does Elli feel about completing a complex part for her work at Augsburg?
(a) She is sad.
(b) She is relieved.
(c) She is toiling against herself.
(d) She is exhausted from thinking.

4. What is discovered when the women arrive at Camp Landsberg?
(a) Too many women have died.
(b) Camp Landsberg is full of men.
(c) Camp Landsberg is filled to capacity.
(d) The women are too weak to work.

5. Why does the family wait at their home after the war?
(a) To see their friends return.
(b) To see if father returns.
(c) To unearth their neighbors' belongings.
(d) To find their buried belongings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Immediately following their freedom, what confuses Elli and the other passengers?

2. What do the soldiers remove from the train cars?

3. Why are the women often forced to strip?

4. What do the local people say concerning the concentration camps?

5. When the women arrive in Augsburg, what initially confuses the military guards?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Elli's internal conflict about making parts for German aircraft?

2. Why does the family make plans to leave their home town?

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

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

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

6. What do Elli and Laura do with the saved soup? Why?

7. Why does Elli's dream convince her that her father is dead?

8. What are Elli's confused feelings when the women learn about the attempted uprising?

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

10. Why do other women help Elli with her mother?

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