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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the smell that Magda cannot quite place when she arrives at Birkenau?
(a) Rotting food.
(b) Burning flesh.
(c) Cooking pork.
(d) Burning wood.

2. What does Hansel do to prove to the village children that he is not afraid?
(a) Touches the pig's bottom.
(b) Suggests a game of war with the village children.
(c) Fights one of the children.
(d) Kisses the flank of a pig.

3. How does Nelka react to Telek's story of what he did to the children?
(a) Nelka is angry he drew the short straw.
(b) Nelka is afraid that he will hurt the baby.
(c) Nelka is angry with Telek for hurting the children.
(d) She is angry the village men were so cowardly.

4. Magda trusts Hansel with what secret?
(a) To take care of Gretel.
(b) Money to keep safe.
(c) Her secret hiding place.
(d) She tells him about Father Poitr and Nelka.

5. How does Telek take care of the first group of children?
(a) He hits them with a club.
(b) He burns the house down.
(c) He breaks their legs and cuts their faces
(d) He burns them and the house.

6. As Hansel is playing with the village children, what impresses the Major about Hansel?
(a) Hansel knows all the posts of the German army.
(b) His senses of courage against the village children.
(c) He wants to play solider with the village children.
(d) Hansel is smart.

7. According to the Russian, why do Russians drink heavily?
(a) Russians drink a lot of vodka because it is their national drink.
(b) Because they are all alcoholics.
(c) Because they are not affected by the effects of alcohol.
(d) Because it shows they still have feelings.

8. What does the Menorah signify?
(a) God loves everything and everyone.
(b) That Christ will soon be born.
(c) Christ has been born.
(d) The world is a miracle.

9. What happens to the two men who rape Gretel?
(a) One is killed and one gets away.
(b) They are caught by Telek.
(c) They are both shot.
(d) They leave Gretel on the log.

10. What happens to all the ashes of the dead, once their bodies are incinerated?
(a) They are dumped in a mass grave.
(b) The ashes are buried at the camp.
(c) They are used as fertilizer.
(d) They are dumped in the river Vistula.

11. Why is Nelka chosen to provide blood to the Oberfuhrer?
(a) She shares the same blood type.
(b) Sister Rosa said Nelka will be able to survive the transfusions.
(c) Nelka is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty.
(d) She is chosen because she has just given birth.

12. How do Sister Rosa and the Oberfuhrer keep Nelka quiet about the transfusions?
(a) They threaten that Nelka will be sent to the prison camps.
(b) Sister Rosa takes Nelka's baby.
(c) They threaten that the Major will be told to kill the villagers.
(d) The Oberfuhrer threatens to kill the children and Magda.

13. Why is Hansel rejected when he is inspected by the Brown Sister?
(a) Hansel is not considered Aryan enough.
(b) He has brown eyes.
(c) He is circumcised.
(d) He is too young.

14. What stopps Magda from taking the children to the secret hiding place?
(a) Hansel tells Magda that he told Halina about the place.
(b) Gretel is sick and Magda does not want to move her.
(c) Magda knows they have plenty of time to get to the hiding place.
(d) Magda is sick with pneumonia and not thinking clearly.

15. What does the oven worker think about the moving air above the furnaces?
(a) It shows the power of the Germans.
(b) It shows that the furnaces are extremely hot.
(c) It is the screams of all the dead Jews.
(d) It is the souls of the Jews going back to God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the stepmother in the woods when Gretel is raped?

2. Where does Magda hide the children from the German soldiers?

3. What was it that Father Poitr had to get out of the boxcar when he was enlisted?

4. How does Telek maime Miron and Ania's little girl?

5. What would have happened to Nelka had she admitted she had gypsy blood?

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