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

2. How does Elli feel about completing a complex part for her work at Augsburg?

3. When the women leave Plaszow, how do the guards force the inmates to travel?

4. When an SS guard arrives at Augsburg, what happens to women's food?

5. What does Mr. Scheidel bring Elli?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Elli's confused feelings when the women learn about the attempted uprising?

2. How does Laura's life change after the liberation?

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

4. Why do Elli, Bubi, and Laura vow never to separate again?

5. What do Elli and Laura do with the saved soup? Why?

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

7. Why does Elli jump on the guard's back?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the greatest symbols throughout the book?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Look at the impact Livia Bitton-Jackson's book has on readers and society. What is the impact of books written by Holocaust survivors?

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