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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 Laura respond when the military guard asks her if she can hurry?
(a) She does not want to hurry.
(b) She can not go faster.
(c) She does not care.
(d) Her daughter needs her to stay back.

2. What is Elli, Laura and Bubi's home like after the war?
(a) Exactly as they left it.
(b) Full of other people's belongings.
(c) Empty except for piles of human excrement.
(d) Completely torn down.

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

4. Immediately following their freedom, how does a man who spoke Yiddish help?
(a) He brings the passengers clothing.
(b) He gives the passengers food.
(c) He relays doctors' orders to the passengers.
(d) He translates for the passengers.

5. How does Laura pass roll call with her injury?
(a) Laura stands only when guards are present.
(b) Elli and friends prop her up.
(c) Laura sits down.
(d) Elli bribes the guard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is discovered when the women arrive at Camp Landsberg?

2. At the Muhldorf train station, Elli and Laura lose sight of whom?

3. At Waldlager, when does Bubi begin talking?

4. Why does Laura put a piece of cloth around Bubi's head?

5. When the train traveling from the Muhldorf train station stops near a cornfield, what does Laura do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the entire barrack stay up at night reading a prayer book?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Elli feel so different about her town after the war?

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

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

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

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