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

2. How many days does Yuri need to acquire what Lale has requested on behalf of Baretski?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 7.
(d) 30.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Gita's friends says she prefers dying in a field in Poland with her friends than going any further?

2. Where does Gita go to after she leaves Krakow?

3. Where is the pick-up place for the transport of the girls to the chalet?

4. When Lale asks Baretski to get a message to Gita, what else does he ask?

5. What is one perk that the Slovak girls have that others do not?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Dana's fate?

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

4. What is Lale's job before he volunteers to go to the Germans to protect his family?

5. At the beginning of 1945, what are small signs of hope that the tide of the war is turning?

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

7. Why is there more unrest in the camps as more people come in?

8. What does Lale find astounding about the one girl other than Cilka who has been allowed to keep her hair?

9. How does Lale escape from the Russian chalet?

10. How does the explosion at the crematorium happen?

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