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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 react to the news from the town crier?

2. When Elli sees her reflection on June 3, what is her reaction?

3. After a guard takes the young girl during the riot, what do the females hear?

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

5. What story does Bubbi tell his family in the middle of the night?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Bubi's reaction to the law concerning yellow stars typical of his personality?

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

4. Why does Elli refuse to go out in her town?

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

6. What is Laura's fear as she and Elli leave Auschwitz?

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

8. What happens to the prisoners when they arrive at Auschwitz?

9. What does Elli's relationship with Jansci bring to her life?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What overall message did Bitton-Jackson convey to readers?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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