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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 are the Russian prisoners wearing at Auschwitz?
(a) Striped prison garb.
(b) Yellow work clothes.
(c) Orange prison garb.
(d) Blue work clothes.

2. What is more valuable than a human life in Auschwitz?
(a) Food.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Gasoline.
(d) Bullet.

3. How old is Gabriel, the boy that Dita sees leading a commando group of boys in Chapter 14?
(a) 11.
(b) 9.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

4. Who was the rabbi who created a Golem?
(a) Judah Loew ben Bezalel.
(b) Eliezer ben Nathan.
(c) Rabbah bar Nahmani.
(d) Judah ben Tabbai.

5. In Chapter 5, how many Jews came to Auschwitz from the Terezin ghetto?
(a) 5,200.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 4,500.
(d) 3,600.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, why does Mrs. Turnovska yell for women to get away from Liesel Adler?

2. How long has Rudi Rosenberg been inside Birkenau in Chapter 5?

3. Who does Dita discover that Hirsch is seeing in Chapter 12?

4. What was the name of Viktor Pestek's Jewish friend?

5. What time do the children in Block 31 rise each morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 12, why has Rudi been giving Alice food?

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

3. How did life change for Dita and other Jews after the Germans took over Prague?

4. How long has Rudi Rosenberg been in Birkenau and what is his job?

5. Where was Yakub Edelstein taken when he was removed from Terezin and why?

6. How did Dita become involved with the library in Terezin?

7. How does Rudi get pencils for Alice?

8. In Chapter 10, why is Renee worried?

9. How do Dita and her mother get to see her father before he dies?

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

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