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

2. Why does an SS officer severely beat Elli?
(a) Elli jumps on him to defend her mother.
(b) Elli argues with him.
(c) Elli does not give him her shoes.
(d) Elli gives him a nasty look.

3. What do Elli and Laura do the night before the scheduled decimation?
(a) Give away their blankets.
(b) Sleep extra.
(c) Read a prayer book.
(d) Eat their reserves.

4. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz the second time, what happens to the bed above Elli and Laura?
(a) It is lumpy.
(b) It is taken away.
(c) It has a broken plank.
(d) It shatters.

5. When a rainstorm hits suddenly, what are the women doing?
(a) Scrubbing the barrack's floors.
(b) Moving dirt.
(c) Singing.
(d) Cleaning the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Laura do after she sees a worm in her soup?

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

4. What is Elli, Laura and Bubi's home like after the war?

5. When women strip for guards, what is the one possession they retain?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What makes traveling to Auschwitz so difficult?

10. What is the difficulty the women face after the group of men and women from the uprising are killed?

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