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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Herta annoyed with Fritz in Chapter 9?
(a) He tries to hit on her.
(b) He picked her up late at the train station.
(c) He tells her she will never get the job.
(d) He calls her ugly.

2. What is the name of the movie playing at the theater?
(a) Gone with the Wind.
(b) Jew Eternal.
(c) The movie is a documentary on Hitler's life.
(d) The Great Execution.

3. What is Caroline’s job in the novel?
(a) She is a Broadway actress
(b) She works for an orphanage in New York.
(c) She works for the Swiss Consulate
(d) She works for the French Consulate.

4. What favor does Halina ask of Herta?
(a) To get her daughters out of the camp.
(b) To mail a letter to Herr Lenmart Fleischer.
(c) To talk to Binz about not hurting her daughters.
(d) To give secret medical attention to Zuzanna because she is sick.

5. What is Herta's first impression of Herr Commandant?
(a) She thinks he is very fair and looks forward to working with him.
(b) She is very impressed by his power and intelligence
(c) He is very ugly, but she is determined to make him like her.
(d) She finds him funny and she thinks they will be friends.

6. What is the code name that Pietrik gives Kasia?
(a) Wiola.
(b) Iowna.
(c) Borris.
(d) Ivanka.

7. Where are Paul and Caroline when they run into her ex-boyfriend for the first time?
(a) The skating rink.
(b) The French Consulate.
(c) Outside of the Plaza Hotel.
(d) A restaurant in Midtown.

8. What is Herta certain of by the end of Chapter 9?
(a) She is certain that she and Fritz will be a couple.
(b) She is certain that she will love this job.
(c) She is certain that she and Binz will be best friends.
(d) She is determined to leave Ravensbruck.

9. Why are Pietrik, Nadia and Kasia at the bluff at Deer Meadow in Chapter 2?
(a) They are watching Warsaw refugees settle in Lublin.
(b) They are waiting for other friends.
(c) They are watching the German’s invade Poland.
(d) They are watching a festival take place.

10. What happens to Kasia while on the train ride to Ravensbruck?
(a) She falls and breaks her wrist.
(b) She cannot stop throwing up.
(c) She tries to escape but is injuries by a guard.
(d) She has a panic attack.

11. What is one reason why Caroline tells Priscilla she cannot adopt a baby?
(a) She does not have a good job.
(b) She does not have a stable place to live.
(c) She is not Christian.
(d) She is not married.

12. Where is Kasia's father when she gets home in Chapter 2?
(a) He is hiding in the bedroom.
(b) He is at his job at the Post Office.
(c) He is at the hospital because he has been injured.
(d) He is gone because he went looking for her.

13. What are Halina and Herta doing when Marchall walks in on them in Chapter 14?
(a) Singing together.
(b) Hugging.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Gossiping about the staff.

14. What does Regina bring to the Revier?
(a) A hair brush.
(b) English phrase book.
(c) A knife for protection.
(d) Extra bread.

15. Why does Herta stay at Ravensbruck?
(a) She enjoys the work.
(b) Her father dies and her mother cannot work because she has back problems.
(c) She cannot afford a train ticket home.
(d) She wants to save the prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What town are Kasia and the other women taken to?

2. Kasia learns that survival at camp depends on keeping track of what items?

3. What does Pietrik call Kasia as they are getting arrested?

4. What type of business does Rena own?

5. What does Halina do for the guards and doctors?

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