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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 do the local people say concerning the concentration camps?
(a) They knew nothing of them.
(b) They stole money from them.
(c) They sneaked food in them.
(d) They could not break into them.

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

3. After the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what do the planes overhead do?
(a) Fly away.
(b) Fire on the train formation.
(c) Take pictures.
(d) Drop bombs.

4. After the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, how does Laura behave?
(a) She runs away.
(b) She cries.
(c) She refuses to lie down.
(d) She becomes delirious.

5. How do Elli, Laura, and Bubi make the trip home?
(a) With money from the locals.
(b) In a bus.
(c) With help from American soldiers and a train.
(d) On an airplane.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a rainstorm hits suddenly, what are the women doing?

2. Immediately following their freedom, what confuses Elli and the other passengers?

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

4. What do Elli and Laura do the night before the scheduled decimation?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What makes traveling to Auschwitz so difficult?

4. What do the women's sleeping arrangements at Auschwitz demonstrate about their treatment?

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

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

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

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

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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