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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 is Mengele whistling at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Puccini's Tosca.
(b) Madame Butterfly.
(c) Puccini's Turandot.
(d) La rondine.

2. How many books did Dita's father sneak into their luggage when they relocated to Terezin?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

3. In Chapter 10, what does Dita's father teach her on Wednesdays?
(a) Latin.
(b) Gergraphy.
(c) Math.
(d) German.

4. Where did Freud die?
(a) Madrid.
(b) England.
(c) Paris.
(d) Vienna.

5. When did Mengele serve in units close to the Nazi Party?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1938.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Gabriel, the boy that Dita sees leading a commando group of boys in Chapter 14?

2. What does Morgenstern make from scraps of paper?

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

4. What did Morgenstern do before the war?

5. What does Hans Adler die of in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 10, why is Renee worried?

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

3. What did Hirsch tell a defender who lost a soccer match because he allowed a Nazi to get past him?

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

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

6. When does Dita remember leaving her childhood behind and why?

7. How do Alice Munk and other assistants create writing utensils?

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

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

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

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