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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. When does the Prologue take place?

2. What color stones are in the earrings Cibi has to remove in Chapter 7?

3. What is the name of the place where Cibi and Livi find themselves in Chapter 7?

4. In Chapter 7, what time do the kapos wake the girls?

5. In Chapter 11, what are the girls fed on Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cibi become a clerk?

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. In Chapter 9, why is Livi upset when she returns from the hospital?

5. When does Cibi's group leave for Palestine, and how many groups have gone before?

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

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

8. What do Cibi and Livi pack in Chapter 4?

9. What does Magda have to do each Friday?

10. In Chapter 7, what are the sisters told when they are taken to a red-brick, two-story building?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Menachem has his daughters make a promise. What does he ask his girls to promise? Why is the promise important to him and to them?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Cibi decides when she learns they are at Auschwitz that they will do anything they have to to survive. What does Cibi mean when she says they will do anything to survive? What things do they have to do to survive?

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