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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 the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what do the guards tell the prisoners?

2. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz the second time, what happens to the bed above Elli and Laura?

3. What do Elli and Laura do the night before the scheduled decimation?

4. After the women's first night at Augsburg, how do the women react to their treatment?

5. Where does Bubi receive permission to attend school after the war?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Elli feel so different about her town after the war?

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

4. Why does the family make plans to leave their home town?

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

6. Why does the arrival of an SS guard change the women's conditions at Augsburg?

7. What makes traveling to Auschwitz so difficult?

8. Why does Elli become angry toward her mother after she saved soup for Elli?

9. Why do other women help Elli with her mother?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In concentration camps, what aspect of the women's lives did the guards not control?

Essay Topic 2

Considering Jewish beliefs and customs, what were purposeful and degrading rituals at 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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