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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 do Elli, Laura, and Bubi make the trip home?

2. When the train traveling from the Muhldorf train station stops near a cornfield, what does Laura do?

3. How does Elli get Laura out of the infirmary?

4. Later, after she has the clothes for a bit, how does Elli feel in her new clothes she receives at Augsburg?

5. As the women traveled, what makes them feel better?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Elli's internal conflict about making parts for German aircraft?

3. What are Elli's mixed feelings concerning her new clothes at Augsburg?

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

5. How do the prisoners behave on the cars that leave from the Muhldorf train station?

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

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

8. What makes traveling to Auschwitz so difficult?

9. At first, how do the military guards treat the women, and how do the women respond at Augsburg?

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Analyze Elli's dream the night her father died. How did this dream prove that her father was dead?

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