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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gita ask Lale after his unexpected return from the punishment block?
(a) "Have you had anything to eat?"
(b) "How many times did they hit you?"
(c) "Did you think of me while you were gone?"
(d) "What happened to you? Where have you been?"

2. What kind of airplane flies over the concentration camp?
(a) A British Royal Airforce Regiment plane.
(b) A U.S. Air Force plane.
(c) A Royal Canadian Air Force Plane.
(d) A French Resistance Fighter Plane.

3. Why does the kapo of Gita's block not harass Lale?
(a) Because Baretski has told her not to interfere in Lale and Gita's relationship.
(b) Because the kapo does not care what happens in her block.
(c) Because the kapo is friendly with Gita.
(d) Because the kapo has a crush on Lale.

4. What woman does Baretski say saved Lale?
(a) Gita.
(b) Dana.
(c) Cilka.
(d) Bella.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Which of Gita's friends says she prefers dying in a field in Poland with her friends than going any further?
(a) Dana.
(b) Cilka.
(c) Bella.
(d) Ivana.

11. What did the friend of the two boys who appear at Lale's block in the middle of the night do?
(a) He escaped and then got caught.
(b) He played a practical joke on an SS officer.
(c) He stole food from the kitchen.
(d) He beat up the kapo guarding his block.

12. What does Gita know about the loss of life that Lale does not?
(a) The personal information of each prisoner.
(b) The exact number of prisoners who have been gassed.
(c) The names of all the SS guards who are performing the executions.
(d) The locations of remaining family members of prisoners.

13. 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.

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

15. What do the girls who agree to provide entertainment for the Russian officers get in return?
(a) Perfume and lace.
(b) Bread and cheese.
(c) Chocolate and stockings.
(d) Money and jewelry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man who gives Lale money every morning so he can find entertainment?

2. Who does Lale ask to help him get Mendel on a transport?

3. What is the first concentration camp that Lale is sent to after he is moved out of Auschwitz?

4. What reaction is NOT a reaction that Lale and Gita have after they make love?

5. Why do most women in the camp wear scarves on their heads?

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