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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. When women strip for guards, what is the one possession they retain?

2. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz the second time, what do the inmates receive?

3. When the women arrive in Augsburg, what do the SS guards immediately do?

4. What task do the military guards give Elli at Augsburg?

5. Why does the family wait at their home after the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bitton-Jackson include great details about the family's trip back to their home?

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

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

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

5. What are the prisoners reactions to the gunfire and planes in "It's An American Plane"?

6. What do the events from the chapter "Mommy, There's a Worm in Your Soup" demonstrate?

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

8. What makes traveling to Auschwitz so difficult?

9. What would lead the local woman to believe Elli is "sixty or sixty-two" years old?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role did Bubi have as the only remaining male in his family?

Essay Topic 2

What overall message did Bitton-Jackson convey to readers?

Essay Topic 3

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

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