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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 share with Lieutenant Rehms?

2. What does Corrie beg for in solitary confinement?

3. Why do all of the Ten Booms gather in Lieutenant Rehms' office?

4. What does Corrie's nurse give her?

5. Who does Otto work for by 1943?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the ride into Germany like? What do the women do when they arrive at Ravensbruck?

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

4. What does Corrie see as her calling in prison? Who does she share this with? How is Corrie rewarded for her efforts?

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

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

7. Why do the sisters divide and distribute their personal items? What happens after they do this?

8. Why do the Ten Boom siblings gather? What news does Corrie learn at this gathering?

9. What does Betsie dream of doing after the concentration camp? With whom does she share this dream?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Trace Corrie's imprisonment. What challenges does Corrie face at each of the different prisons? How she attempt to make life better for herself and Betsie while in prison? In what ways does Corrie take her fate into her own hands and influence where she is imprisoned?

Essay Topic 2

What are the concentration camps like? What hardships are present for the prisoners? How do they attempt to minimize these hardships?

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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