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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. What are Suri and Hindi doing on June 9 and 10?

2. For what does Old Mr. Stern pray?

3. As a young girl screams, what do the female prisoners begin to smell?

4. What do the aunt and cousins say about Elli and her mother's reaction to their first serving of food at Auschwitz?

5. What future plans does Elli have for Budapest?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the girl like who oversees the barracks?

3. What honesty does the chapter "Teen Vanity" bring to the book?

4. Why does Dr. Mengele tell Laura that Elli needs her more than Aunt Serene does?

5. Why do the guards hit the women who bring blankets outside?

6. How do Hindi, Suri Schreiber, and Aunt Celia help Laura and Elli on their first day at Auschwitz?

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

8. What does the color 'yellow' symbolize in Elli's life?

9. Why does Elli's father become like "a statue of stone" as the family prepares for Nagymagyar?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Elli's relationship with her mother change from the start of the book, through the concentration camps, and then as they settle after the war?

Essay Topic 2

What was the greatest internal conflict a concentration camp prisoner faced? Why?

Essay Topic 3

How did concentration camp prisoners handle helping each other? Were they more helpful or selfish than under regular life circumstances?

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