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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 does Lale believe in?
(a) In throwing caution to the wind and trying to escape.
(b) In getting out of the camp and having a life with Gita.
(c) In informing on his friends so he can remain alive.
(d) In making lots of money and living in luxury again.

2. Where is the pick-up place for the transport of the girls to the chalet?
(a) The river.
(b) The butcher shop.
(c) The schoolhouse.
(d) The bakery.

3. What does Gita tell her brothers that makes them laugh?
(a) That she looks better in a Russian uniform than they do.
(b) That she is stronger than they are.
(c) That she thinks they look like toothpicks.
(d) That she is afraid of who they have become.

4. What kind of transportation does Lale use to get back to Bratislava from Krompechy?
(a) An old German car.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A horse-drawn cart.
(d) The train.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How can Mendel help thank Lale?

2. What is the last name of the boy that Lale is helping because his two friends asked him to?

3. How does Gita tell Lale that he can honor his Romany family?

4. After Lale is tortured, what manual labor is he assigned to do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the slow-down in the number of prisoners coming into the camp affect the Sonderkommando?

2. After Lale is released from Block 11 and put with a new group of men in Block 31, what job does he do?

3. What group of the Romany people is Lale the least connected to?

4. What happens when Gita and the four girls run away from the train across the open field in an attempt to escape?

5. Discuss the job Lale does for the Russian soldiers when they take him to the chalet.

6. What is Dana's fate?

7. What does Baretski ask Lale to acquire for him?

8. What does Lale say about Gita's faith?

9. What does Lale do for Mendel Bauer?

10. What role does Cilka play in Lale's placement back in his old block with the Romany people?

(see the answer keys)

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