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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bubi manage to return from Budapest after the story breaks in the papers?

2. At the start of the book, why do the Hungarian police bother Elli's family?

3. Where do Bonnie and Elli go to swim?

4. Why does Laura hate leaving her sister behind at Auschwitz?

5. On what does Elli's poetry focus?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Elli and her mother go to the cemetery before leaving for the ghetto?

2. At the start of her story, how do Elli's actions as her life starts to change indirectly describe her?

3. From Elli's father's stance on ambition, what do readers learn about him?

4. What do Elli, her family, and other Jews do when they arrive at the ghetto?

5. What is the mood when the women smell gas behind closed doors?

6. What does Elli's father spend his last night doing before he leaves for a labor camp, and what does this tell readers about him?

7. What is Bubi's relationship with other people?

8. What is the irony of Laura's excitement about moving to a work camp?

9. What is ironic about the guards telling the prisoners to leave their possessions on the cattle cars?

10. How does the failed date with Jansci affect Elli?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Laura's sporadic interactions with her extended family contribute to the terrors of the concentration camps?

Essay Topic 2

How was Elli's relationship with her father influential throughout the book? Comment on her actions after his death as well.

Essay Topic 3

How did the chapters' titles shape the overall message of the book?

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