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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the girls begging for when they wake up from surgery?
(a) Their mothers.
(b) Food.
(c) Water.
(d) Revenge.

2. Aside from Felka, what is Kasia sent to Nadia's home to retrieve?
(a) A hidden gun under neath Nadia's bed.
(b) Poison to kill the SS officers.
(c) Something Nadia's mother has left in her nightstand.
(d) Letters from Nadia.

3. Where does Kasia’s father work?
(a) A lawyer's office.
(b) He works with the army.
(c) The Post Office.
(d) A butcher’s shop.

4. What does Caroline do to raise the money for her care packages?
(a) She begs Roger for the money.
(b) She sells her Grandmother Woosley's silver.
(c) She steals from her mother.
(d) She gets a job as a waitress.

5. How did Caroline's father die?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) He disappeared.
(c) He killed himself.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a lapanka?

2. What is Herta's initial reaction to seeing her room for the first time?

3. What is Caroline's heritage?

4. What does Kasia find in the basement of Mr. Z's Pharmacy?

5. What does Fritz help Herta with when she first arrived?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Caroline’s relationship like with Pia?

2. Why does Pietrik not want to send Kasia on more advanced missions?

3. What does the Polish Underground provide for Kasia?

4. Martha Hall Kelly writes the character of Herta’s father as a Jewish sympathizer. Why do you think she made that choice?

5. What is the game the girls play about Beauty Road?

6. Does Herta have a lot of female friends before her life at Ravensbruck? What does this tell us about her?

7. What are the surgeries that the doctors are performing on the Kasia, Zuzanna, and the other girls?

8. In Chapter 4, Paul save’s Caroline’s mother’s charity event at the Plaza. What does this reveal about his character?

9. In Chapter 1, Caroline warns Paul not to get too political during his speech. Why is that?

10. What reason does Herta give for staying at Ravensbruck? Is it justifiable?

(see the answer keys)

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