View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz the second time, what happens to the bed above Elli and Laura?
(a) It has a broken plank.
(b) It is lumpy.
(c) It is taken away.
(d) It shatters.

2. The women learn that the civilians killed earlier were part of ___________.
(a) A movement for more food.
(b) A plan to liberate the inmates.
(c) An undercover reporter's investigation.
(d) A plan to steal from the factories.

3. What convinces Elli of her father's death?
(a) A dream.
(b) A guard.
(c) Another prisoner's message.
(d) The sunset.

4. After the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what do the planes overhead do?
(a) Fly away.
(b) Fire on the train formation.
(c) Take pictures.
(d) Drop bombs.

5. What do Elli and Laura do the night before the scheduled decimation?
(a) Sleep extra.
(b) Give away their blankets.
(c) Eat their reserves.
(d) Read a prayer book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens the day the food arrives early at Laura and Elli's work?

2. At Waldlager, when does Bubi begin talking?

3. After Elli's last train ride under the German soldiers' control, who is there when the doors open?

4. When the train traveling from the Muhldorf train station stops near a cornfield, what do many prisoners do?

5. What happens to those who remain in the infirmary longer than three weeks at Auschwitz?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would lead the local woman to believe Elli is "sixty or sixty-two" years old?

2. What do the women's sleeping arrangements at Auschwitz demonstrate about their treatment?

3. Why does Elli become angry toward her mother after she saved soup for Elli?

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

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

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

7. What do the events from the chapter "Mommy, There's a Worm in Your Soup" demonstrate?

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

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

10. Why does Elli jump on the guard's back?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 978 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample