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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 does Betsie suffer from in December?

2. Frau Mikes makes what out of toilet tissue?

3. Who summons Corrie, making her fear that she will be imprisoned?

4. What work is Betsie given when she returns from the hospital?

5. What do the women hold twice daily?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Betsie and Corrie begin to do in the barracks? How do they reach the women who do not speak Dutch?

2. Why does Betsie enter the infirmary? What dangers does the infirmary represent to the prisoners? What happens to Betsie?

3. What does Nollie send to Corrie after Nollie is released? Where does she include a secret message and what is it?

4. Why does Corrie go to the hospital? What does she ask the nurse? What does she receive when she leaves?

5. What does Corrie ask of Lieutenant Rehms? What two situations does Lieutenant Rehms arrange for Corrie?

6. What vision has Corrie had that now comes true? What does it symbolize?

7. What happens to Betsie? What does Corrie think when she sees her sister? What happens to the blue sweater?

8. What is Corrie's visit to the hospital to see Betsie like? Who tells her how to get into the hospital? What does she see in the bathroom?

9. What happens when the police chief summons Corrie? How does Corrie react?

10. Where are Betsie and Corrie sent after The Hague? What are conditions like at this prison? What work do Corrie and Betsie do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Corrie and Betsie believed that God directed their lives. Why do you think that God allowed these sisters to be arrested? What purpose might it have had? How did Corrie and Betsie feel about their imprisonment?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think the Ten Booms got involved in hiding Jews? Trace their involvement in this activity. How did they get started? Do you think you would make the same choice?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the conditions of the camp. What was life like for the prisoners? Discuss at least three ways that Corrie and the other prisoners tried to cope with the conditions.

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