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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 train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what is there?
(a) More priosners.
(b) A group of bystanders, who throw food at the prisoners.
(c) New guards.
(d) Trucks with red crosses painted on them.

2. What is discovered when the women arrive at Camp Landsberg?
(a) Too many women have died.
(b) The women are too weak to work.
(c) Camp Landsberg is filled to capacity.
(d) Camp Landsberg is full of men.

3. When the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what do the guards tell the prisoners?
(a) To lie to locals about their situations.
(b) To come to the window of the cars for hot soup.
(c) To steal food if they want some.
(d) To stay on the trains.

4. After the women's first night at Augsburg, how do the women react to their treatment?
(a) Several laughed.
(b) Several cried.
(c) They jumped with excitement.
(d) Many attemped suicide.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When an SS guard arrives at Augsburg, what happens to women's food?

3. When Elli returns from her punishment for retrieving her coat, what has her mother done?

4. What is Elli's punishment for retrieving her coat?

5. What does Mr. Scheidel bring Elli?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Elli want to sing the American national anthem when she arrives at the Statue of Liberty?

3. What makes traveling to Auschwitz so difficult?

4. Why does Elli feel so different about her town after the war?

5. Why does Elli jump on the guard's back?

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

7. Why does Elli call her and her mother's reunion a "divine miracle"?

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

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

10. Why are the military guards so confused at Augsburg, and what does this say about Elli's condition?

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