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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 Corrie learn is the typical sentence for her crime?

2. Why is there little supervision in the barracks?

3. Corrie sees Betsie's body and thinks that she looks what?

4. What does the police chief want the underground to do?

5. What does Corrie manage to smuggle in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who does Otto work for by chapter 8? How does Corrie deal with his questions and insinuations?

4. What does Betsie vow to do while in prison? How does Corrie react? How does this vow change their lives?

5. Who helps the family at the processing facility? What advice does he give them?

6. Why do the guards all leave one day? What do the women do during this time? What does Betsie pass to Corrie?

7. What happens when Nollie's house is raided? How does Nollie differ from Corrie in regard to a raid?

8. What happens when the authorities raid the Beje?

9. What does the family at the Beje notice one evening during dinner? How does this event change Corrie's life?

10. What are the conditions like at Ravensbruck for the women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What tensions exist between the Ten Boom's faith and their activities in the underground? What are several ways that they deal with these tensions? Which approach do you think you would take in the circumstances?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the underground network that hid Jews in Holland. Who was involved in it? What strategies did they use to escape detection?

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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