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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the torturer use to whip Lale?
(a) A leather whip.
(b) A birch rod.
(c) A metal pole.
(d) A spiked thong.

2. What object did the female prisoners use to make the bombs?
(a) Chamber pots.
(b) Sardine tins.
(c) Old suitcases.
(d) Watering cans.

3. What is the Block number that Lale is assigned to for punishment?
(a) Block 7.
(b) Block 11.
(c) Block 29.
(d) Block 31.

4. What does Lale tell Victor and Yuri that he is going to do?
(a) Lale is going to want a dozen pair of nylons.
(b) Lale is going to stop paying them.
(c) Lale is going to scale back his business.
(d) Lale is going to need three times as much food as before.

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

6. What does Jakub tell Lale about what he will do to him?
(a) He will stop beating him after Lale gives five names.
(b) He will beat him to death no matter how many names Lale gives up.
(c) He will help him escape.
(d) He will kill Lale to save ten others.

7. Why has Lale lost his faith?
(a) Because he believes the Nazis are right.
(b) Because he and Gita cannot be together all the time.
(c) Because he has not been rescued from the camp.
(d) Because he cannot understand how a merciful God would let such terrible things happen each and every day.

8. How does Gita tell Lale that he can honor his Romany family?
(a) By writing their names on a wooden post.
(b) By staying alive and telling their story.
(c) By swearing to get revenge for them.
(d) By burying their remains in a Gypsy ceremony.

9. What falls on Lale as he tattoos new arrivals the morning after the Romany's are rounded up?
(a) Flower petals.
(b) Snow.
(c) Raindrops.
(d) Ash.

10. Which group of workers is most negatively affected when the transports with incoming prisoners slow down?
(a) The women working in the munitions factory.
(b) The Sonderkommando.
(c) The girls in Canada.
(d) The tattooist and his assistant.

11. Who is the Nazis chief torturer?
(a) Aron.
(b) Jakub.
(c) Victor.
(d) Baretski.

12. After Lale is tortured, what manual labor is he assigned to do?
(a) Sort through the belongings of incoming prisoners.
(b) Carry dead bodies out of the ovens.
(c) Build fires in the crematoriums.
(d) Move rocks from one side of the field to the other.

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

14. What item does Baretski ask Lale to procure?
(a) Fancy perfume.
(b) Nylon stockings.
(c) Extra sausage.
(d) Belgium lace.

15. What does Lale give to the surviving children after the guards have shot the people in the courtyard?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Toys.
(c) Extra bread.
(d) Books with stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gita ask Lale after his unexpected return from the punishment block?

2. What does the kapo of Gita's block, say she likes in addition to chocolate?

3. How does Lale escape from Saurer-Werke?

4. Why do the men in Lale's new block assignment help him after Lale has been beaten?

5. What do the two men who ask Lale to procure food for them give him in return?

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