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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. What is Elli's punishment for visiting her mother every morning at the infirmary?

2. How does Elli respond to the local woman guessing her age?

3. When a military guard asks Laura her name, how does she reply?

4. Why are the women often forced to strip?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does the entire barrack stay up at night reading a prayer book?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did concentration camp prisoners handle helping each other? Were they more helpful or selfish than under regular life circumstances?

Essay Topic 2

Laura faced numerous conflicts, both internally and externally. What were her greatest conflicts, and whom did they most affect?

Essay Topic 3

What were the greatest symbols throughout the book?

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