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

2. What is the Black Wall?
(a) A place where prisoners are taken to be shot.
(b) A place where prisoners can climb over and sometimes escape.
(c) A place where the women go to buy favors with sex.
(d) A place where the guards smoke their cigarettes.

3. What is Lale's relationship with the Romany men?
(a) He does not connect very well with them.
(b) He admires their way with women.
(c) He works with them every day.
(d) He is very close to them.

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

5. One girl other than Cilka has been allowed to have long hair. What color is it?
(a) Black.
(b) Blonde.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the female prisoners do to make the bomb?

2. Which of the following is NOT a result of more and more people coming into camp?

3. What causes the explosions at the camp?

4. What do the girls who agree to provide entertainment for the Russian officers get in return?

5. What item does Baretski ask Lale to procure?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Lale and Gita differ in their perception of Cilka after being forced to be Schwarzhuber's sex slave?

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

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

4. Who doles out the punishment and torture in Block 11 and how is the presence of this person significant to Lale?

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

6. What happens to Leon?

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

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

9. What does Lale tell Cilka when he says good-bye to all the girls who are being transported out of the camp?

10. What is Dana's fate?

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