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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 the family see on April 7, 1951?
(a) The Statue of Liberty.
(b) The Eiffel Tower.
(c) New York.
(d) The Constitution of America.

2. At the Muhldorf train station, Elli and Laura lose sight of whom?
(a) Each other.
(b) Aunt Celia.
(c) The SS guards.
(d) Bubi.

3. How does Elli feel in her home town after the war?
(a) As if she does not belong.
(b) As if she had never left.
(c) As if she is not a Jew.
(d) As if she is in danger.

4. When women strip for guards, what is the one possession they retain?
(a) Their socks.
(b) Their blankets.
(c) Their shoes.
(d) Their underwear.

5. Who plans to help the family in New York?
(a) Sara.
(b) No one.
(c) Their uncle.
(d) A cousin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the women leave Plaszow, how do the guards force the inmates to travel?

3. What time do Elli and Laura take a daily lunch break?

4. Why does the family wait at their home after the war?

5. When a man is shot and left for dead, what does he do before guards finally kill him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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