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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 do the guards carry out an act of decimation?
(a) Prisoners are forced awake for days.
(b) Prisoners work without food or water.
(c) Prisoners form a line, and every tenth one is shot.
(d) Prisoners must choose which one dies.

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

3. What do the soldiers remove from the train cars?
(a) Corpses.
(b) Bibles.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Valuables.

4. After the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what happens as the prisoners stand outside the cars?
(a) Bombs drop.
(b) Gunfire erupts.
(c) SS soldiers run away.
(d) Trains crash.

5. How long wis Elli and Laura's lunch break?
(a) They never recieve a lunch break.
(b) Half hour.
(c) An hour.
(d) Fifteen minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the day of the scheduled decimation, what happens?

2. How does Laura make a lamp for the Sabbath at Augsburg?

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

4. When a military guard asks Laura her name, how does she reply?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Laura's life change after the liberation?

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

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

4. How do the prisoners behave on the cars that leave from the Muhldorf train station?

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

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

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. What is the importance of Laura keeping her handkerchief?

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

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