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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. Who witnesses the priest kill the soldier and the Brown Sister?
(a) Telek.
(b) Hansel.
(c) Wiktor.
(d) Nelka.

2. What happens if a child is accepted by the Oberfuhrer during an inspection?
(a) The parents receive monetary compensation.
(b) The child is scheduled to be sterilized.
(c) The parent receives a red card.
(d) The child is taken to Germany.

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

4. 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.

5. What are the revving trucks doing at the camp, Birkenau?
(a) Covering all the screaming.
(b) Powering the ovens.
(c) The exhaust is used as poison.
(d) Pumping poison into the showers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Russian and partisans find the Germans transporting?

2. Why does the Oberfuhrer want Nelka's blood?

3. Who does the Oberfuhrer get to take him to Magda and the children?

4. What happens to all the ashes of the dead, once their bodies are incinerated?

5. What would have made the Oberfuhrer kill Nelka and the baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was the one who saved Gretel from being killed by the men who raped her?

2. The stepmother dies. How is she killed?

3. What happened to change the Russian's group of partisans in March, 1944?

4. What did Hansel get bullied into doing to show he was not afraid when he ventured into the village alone?

5. Nelka swore she was not a gypsy and the Oberfuhrer was relieved, why?

6. What does Telek confess to the priest?

7. When it was stated that Gretel was mad during her inspection, what was going to be her fate at the age of 13?

8. What had brought the stepmother to the field?

9. What is the Oberfuhrer's ultimate goal in making the priest preach in this manner?

10. What happened to Nelka, Telek and the baby?

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