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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lale do to Mendel's tattooed number?
(a) He writes the words "Work Makes You Free" over the numbers.
(b) He covers over it with a big green block.
(c) He changes the numbers into a picture of a train.
(d) He turns it into a snake.

2. What does the waitress in the cafe ask Lale?
(a) "Will you marry me when the war is over?"
(b) "How do you like your apple pie?"
(c) "Why don't you come work for us?"
(d) "Can you get me extra food for my family?"

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

4. How does Lale escape from Saurer-Werke?
(a) He crawls under a fence and into the forest.
(b) He climbs over a fence when the electricity was turned off.
(c) He uses the loot he has collected to get out on a transport truck.
(d) He stabs a guard and gets out through the front gates.

5. Instead of telling Gita about what he sees in the crematorium, what does Lale tell her?
(a) "I must have nine lives."
(b) "Out of the frying pan, into the fire."
(c) "I'll tell you about it when we get out of here."
(d) "I took another step into the abyss but got to step back out of it."

6. What is Lale worried will happen to him in the future?
(a) That he will be called a collaborator.
(b) That he will be able to make love whenever and wherever he feels like it.
(c) That he will be able to be with Gita all the time. .
(d) That he will have to give his food to prisoners.

7. What was Lale's job before he volunteered to go to the Germans on behalf of his family?
(a) He was a tailor of fine clothing.
(b) He worked as a translator for the Slovak news agency.
(c) He was an assistant to the leader of the Slovak National Party.
(d) He worked for his father driving horse-drawn taxis.

8. Who is Lale warned to beware of?
(a) The young boys wandering the streets.
(b) The Russian security guard at the fence.
(c) The attractive, gay officer.
(d) The grandmas in the cafe.

9. Who does Lale ask to help him get Mendel on a transport?
(a) Dana.
(b) Bella.
(c) Baretski.
(d) Gita.

10. When Lale is performing manual labor, what happens to the last person to finish his task?
(a) He is given double work on the next assignment.
(b) He is kicked and beaten.
(c) He is shot by the SS officers.
(d) He is taken to the torture chamber.

11. Why can Cilka not get pregnant?
(a) Because Cilka is using birth control.
(b) Because Schwarzhuber is impotent.
(c) Because the women no longer have monthly cycles.
(d) Because Cilka does not go near Schwarzhuber.

12. Who do the Romany men interact with most?
(a) The young women.
(b) The older women.
(c) Other Romany men.
(d) The children.

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

14. What is the name of the man who gives Lale money every morning so he can find entertainment?
(a) Friedrich.
(b) Adolph.
(c) Albert.
(d) Hobart.

15. What reaction is NOT a reaction that Lale and Gita have after they make love?
(a) They long for the time when they can be free to make love whenever they want.
(b) They begin to resent each other.
(c) They become more committed to each other.
(d) They strengthen in their resolve to survive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lale use as a bribe for the kapo of Gita's block?

2. What does the stationmaster at the train station do for Lale as Lale is traveling home?

3. What is the Black Wall?

4. What two words does Lale think that Gita will one day say to him in the presence of family and friends?

5. What does the torturer use to whip Lale?

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