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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 happens to Laura as she struggles because of her partial paralysis?
(a) Laura falls over.
(b) Laura knocks food over.
(c) A guard kicks her down.
(d) A guard cruelly twists her arm.

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

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

4. When do Elli, Laura, and Bubi begin making the trip home?
(a) 1944.
(b) Fall of 1945.
(c) June of 1945.
(d) Winter of 1946.

5. What do the women who shoveled snow at Augsburg find?
(a) Money.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Jewelry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Laura respond when the military guard asks her if she can hurry?

2. After the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what do the planes overhead do?

3. How does Elli first feel in her new clothes she receives at Augsburg?

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

5. How does Laura pass roll call with her injury?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What makes traveling to Auschwitz so difficult?

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

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

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

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

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

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