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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. In Chapter 6 after Livi hurts her hands, how many girls are taken away by three guards?

2. Where is the cheeky girl from that Cibi remembers meeting when she joined Hachshara?

3. What are men wearing who swarm the train when the girls arrive at a concentration camp in Chapter 6?

4. Where does Menachem Meller have a bullet from the Great War still lodged inside him?

5. In Chapter 2, when is the group Cibi is with supposed to leave?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Hlinka Guard say when Chaya says that Livi is too young to go work for the Germans?

2. Why do two of the Hlinka Guard come to the Meller home in Chapter 3?

3. In Chapter 10, why does the kapo, Ingrid, tell the sisters not to ride in the trucks to their new quarters at Birkenau?

4. What goes into the soups the sisters are served in Chapter 9?

5. Why does Menachem ask his daughters to always promise to take care of one another?

6. What does Magda have to do each Friday?

7. How does Magda take the news that her sisters are gone?

8. In Chapter 8, what does Chaya do while she waits for Magda to get home?

9. In Chapter 1, where is Cibi?

10. Who helps Cibi when her feet are ravaged with frostbite?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The sisters experience anti-Jewish sentiment in Bratislava. How does the anti-Jewish settlement they face factor in the decision they make to go to Israel?

Essay Topic 2

Cibi resists remembering the past when they are reunited with Magda. Why can memories hurt or help? How do they hurt or help the sisters?

Essay Topic 3

Mala, an interpreter, escapes and then is recaptured. What choice does Mala make when she is returned to the camp? How does she keep a sense of freedom through her decision?

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