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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job is Gita assigned to do after being ill?
(a) Janitorial work, emptying slop pots.
(b) Manual labor, pulling dead bodies to wagons.
(c) Kitchen work, peeling potatoes and making broth.
(d) Clerical work, listing prisoner information on cards and in a ledger.

2. What is another name for Gypsy?
(a) Poles.
(b) Romany.
(c) Frogs.
(d) Slovs.

3. What is Gita's block number?
(a) 7.
(b) 29.
(c) 15.
(d) 11.

4. What does Lale tell Baretski about books?
(a) That they should all be burned.
(b) That they are very valuable and can be sold for lots of money.
(c) That he can learn lines and poetry from them that he can quote to girls.
(d) That he himself has written one.

5. Who does Nadya remind Lale of?
(a) Dana.
(b) Gita.
(c) His sister.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gita work?

2. What phrase does Lale use to describe Dr. Mengele?

3. Why does Yuri's attitude toward Lale change?

4. How do Gita's friends give her water while she is ill and they are working?

5. On their first meeting, what kind of food does Victor give Lale?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of a four-leaf clover?

2. How do Gita's cellmates keep her alive when she is ill?

3. What do the Sonderkommando and Lale have in common?

4. What group of people move into Lale's private block and why are they there?

5. Why does Baretski tell Lale that he and others will be receiving extra provisions and extra blankets?

6. When does Gita say she will tell Lale her name and her hometown?

7. Why is the building that many of the girls work called Canada?

8. Who is Jakub and why does Lale tell him that he will do well at Auschwitz?

9. How is Lale able to survive his bout with typhus?

10. What happens to the prisoners that Lale sees loaded onto the bus shortly after he arrives at the camp?

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