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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 does Mr. Scheidel bring Elli?
(a) Crusts of bread.
(b) Potato scraps.
(c) Raw meat.
(d) Clippings of the newspaper.

2. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz for the second time, what does Laura continually tell Elli?
(a) Elli should find Bubi.
(b) To survive.
(c) To get her water.
(d) She can't go on.

3. On the train, why could a girl not see?
(a) She had poison in her eye.
(b) She stabbed herself.
(c) She had a needle in her eye.
(d) She was shot in the eye.

4. How does Laura make a lamp for the Sabbath at Augsburg?
(a) With a lightbulb.
(b) From a candle.
(c) With stolen gas.
(d) From a potato and oil.

5. What is Laura's assignment at Waldlager?
(a) Working in the kitchen.
(b) Cleaning the stables.
(c) Scrubbing the floors.
(d) Organizing clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Bubi's father die?

2. When the women arrive in Augsburg, what do the SS guards immediately do?

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

4. How does Elli respond to the local woman guessing her age?

5. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz the second time, what happens to the bed above Elli and Laura?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is sad concerning Laura and Elli's work on leveling a hillside in preparation of construction?

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

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

6. What is the importance of Laura keeping her handkerchief?

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

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

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

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

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