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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one perk that the Slovak girls have that others do not?
(a) They have acquired casual clothes from Canada.
(b) They have been allotted extra rations.
(c) They have shower privileges.
(d) They have been allowed to re-grow their hair.

2. What causes the explosions at the camp?
(a) A faulty gas canister.
(b) A bomb was dropped from an Allied plane.
(c) A plot by the prisoners to blow up the crematorium.
(d) The Russian army advanced and blew it up.

3. Why do most women in the camp wear scarves on their heads?
(a) To demonstrate their fashion sense.
(b) To keep warm.
(c) To hide their cropped heads.
(d) To protect against lice.

4. What is the translation for the slogan that appears on the gate to the camp?
(a) This is the point of no return.
(b) Work makes you free.
(c) Fear us deadly.
(d) Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

5. Why does Gita not tell Lale what she has learned about her parents?
(a) Because she doesn't want both of them to be sad at the same time.
(b) Because she doesn't really like Lale all that much.
(c) Because she is a private person and doesn't want to share with anyone.
(d) Because she is embarrassed and doesn't want to talk about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nayda's voice make Lale sad?

2. What does Gita say about the object that Lale tries to give her?

3. What does Lale tell Baretski about books?

4. What request does Baretski have of Lale in Chapter 12?

5. What does Gita know about the loss of life that Lale does not?

(see the answer key)

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