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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Nadya?

3. What color ink is used to make the tattoos show up on the skin?

4. Where was Lale born?

5. How is Cilka different from other women prisoners?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Hilda Goldstein and what news does she bring Gita?

4. What role do Victor and Yuri play in the camp's labor structure?

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

6. How do Victor and Yuri play into Lale's desire to survive?

7. When Gita is moved to the administration building, what is her job assignment?

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

9. Why is Lale assigned a "minder" by the name of Baretski?

10. Why does Lale believe he and Gita have a future?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define the literary term of irony. Then discuss how the literary term of irony is evident in the motto on the gates to Auschwitz.

Essay Topic 2

Define the literary term of motif and demonstrate three examples of how flowers are a recurring motif in The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the characters of Leon and Dr. Mengele. Who were they? How did they affect each other? What is known about Dr. Mengele after the war?

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