View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hirsch's native language?
(a) German.
(b) Polish.
(c) Austrian.
(d) Czech.

2. Where did Dita live in 1939?
(a) Nyrsko.
(b) Zlin.
(c) Harrachov.
(d) Prague.

3. Where did Hirsch's family flee, and he decided to stay behind?
(a) Colombia.
(b) Bolivia.
(c) Peru.
(d) Chile.

4. What is Dita's father's job at Auschwitz?
(a) Unload potatoes.
(b) Producing shoulder straps for guns.
(c) Digging basements.
(d) Work in a chemical factory.

5. At the end of Chapter 11, how long does it take for the camp to learn that Mr. Tomasek is an informer?
(a) Within 48 hours.
(b) 36 hours.
(c) About 24 hours.
(d) 18 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owns the only watch in the camp?

2. What is Dita reading in Chapter 10?

3. How old was Fredy Hirsch when his father died?

4. In Chapter 13, what type of game does Hirsch remember that he organized between the SS guards and the Jews in Terezin?

5. How old does Morgenstern say that a cousin lived who walked three hours daily?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dita overhear in Chapter 7?

2. In Chapter 14, what does Hirsch say when Dita tells him that Mengele is watching her?

3. In Chapter 2, why does Dita worry about the inspection of Block 31?

4. How have chlidren's attitudes changed about books now that they are in Auschwitz?

5. How does Dita describe Professor Morgenstern?

6. At the end of Chapter 12, what chance did Hirsch have to leave Prague?

7. What does Dita see Professor Morgenstern doing at the end of Chapter 9?

8. In Chapter 11, how is the food the children are served contrasted with the food served in the officers' dining room?

9. What did Dita notice when she and her family first arrived in Terezin?

10. What did Fredy find solace in after his father's death?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 871 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample