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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 did Gita's mother tell Mrs. Goldstein about Gita's brothers?

2. How does Lale feel about women?

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

4. What does Lale find in Auschwitz behind Block 10?

5. Where was Lale born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of advice does Lale give Baretski?

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

3. Who is the man in the white coat and why is Lale afraid of him?

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

5. What group of people wear the green triangle and what kind of people are they?

6. What happens to Leon?

7. What does Lale do to help Gita survive after she has recovered from typhus?

8. Before their experience at the camp, how would the Romany's and Lale feel about each other?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Auschwitz? Describe the camp and its purpose by giving at least three examples of activities that occurred there.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss Lale's survival instinct. Give five examples of actions he took to survive

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