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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 does Hannah ask Rivka about involving a Choosing?
(a) What a Choosing is.
(b) Has Rivka ever been chosen.
(c) Who performs a Choosing.
(d) Why a Choosing happens.

2. Where do the women lie down on while in the barracks?
(a) The floor.
(b) Old beds.
(c) Shelves of wood.
(d) Wooden boxes.

3. What does Hannah awaken to that she first believes to be a clock radio?
(a) A horn.
(b) Cries.
(c) A scream.
(d) A gun.

4. What is done with the passengers that die while in the boxcars?
(a) They are thrown by the soldiers onto a siding.
(b) They steal their clothes.
(c) They shoot them.
(d) They burn them.

5. Why do the women make a signal noise when the Commandant arrives?
(a) To signal the children to stand in line and stand up straight.
(b) To signal the children to hide behind them.
(c) To signal the children to run to the midden.
(d) To signal the children to attack the Commandant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Hannah to sit down in a chair that is reserved for the prophet Elijah?

2. Who is included in the men held in chains for trying to escape?

3. What is demanded that Hannah give up when arriving at the concentration camp?

4. Before Shmuel is shot, who's head does he kiss?

5. Who finished out the war fighting with the partisans in the forest against the Germans?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Hannah's reaction to the first Choosing.

2. Discuss and describe the Commandant.

3. What does Rivka say should happen when the Commandant comes for a Choosing?

4. Where are the women and children taken first at the camp and why?

5. Discuss the potential escape of the women.

6. Discuss the six men in chains.

7. Discuss Gitl's organization.

8. Describe where the women and children stay at the camp.

9. How does Hannah die?

10. What happens when Hannah awakens in Chapter 13?

(see the answer keys)

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