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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Minka's job in the ghetto?
(a) Tutor.
(b) Baker.
(c) Delivery girl.
(d) Seamstress.

2. When Minka arrived at Auschwitz, how tall were the bunks in the hut where she was sent?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

3. What did Leo do after Minka told her story and Sage sat with her as she went to sleep?
(a) Make phone calls.
(b) Clean the kitchen.
(c) Finish his notes.
(d) Read a magazine.

4. When Sage visits Josef in the hospital, how many years is she taken back?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

5. Where does Leo get a motel the night after hearing Minka's story?
(a) Drury.
(b) Days Inn.
(c) Courtyard by Marriott.
(d) Holiday Inn

6. What does Sage have for dessert when she is supposed to be sitting "shivah" for her grandmother?
(a) Cookies.
(b) Chocolate ice cream and lemon meringue pie.
(c) Brownies.
(d) French silk pie and pudding.

7. Who was murdered while Aleks was being whipped?
(a) Blacksmith.
(b) Farmer's wife.
(c) Grocer.
(d) Tax man's wife.

8. Where did Minka and her husband meet?
(a) France.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Germany.

9. What was Minka's father's name?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Abram.
(c) Isaac.
(d) David.

10. What did the villagers throw on Alek's wounds when he was beaten?
(a) Small pebbles.
(b) Tar.
(c) Vinegar and salt.
(d) Cheap wine.

11. What does Sage wear to conceal the wire?
(a) Dress and a cardigan.
(b) Shorts and button down shirt.
(c) T-shirt and jeans.
(d) Sundress.

12. What was Minka's best subject in school?
(a) Math.
(b) German.
(c) English.
(d) French.

13. Why has Josef been hospitalized?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Have his stomach pumped.
(d) Kidney stones.

14. How many Jews lived in the Jewish town where Minka and her family had to go?
(a) 120,000.
(b) 55,000.
(c) 160,000.
(d) 75,000.

15. When did Majer get sick?
(a) April 1941.
(b) February 1941.
(c) March 1941.
(d) January 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many other couples lived in the apartment that Basia and Rubin shared?

2. What is Minka wearing in the casket?

3. What was unusual about Casimir's appearance?

4. Where do Josek and his family go after the SS raid at the Astoria?

5. What did Minka's father want served to drink at his funeral?

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