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

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

3. Where does Livi have a cut when she falls and breaks a window in Chapter 6?

4. When are the sisters taken to Birkenau in Chapter 10?

5. When does the Prologue take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Dr. Kisely put Magda in the hospital in Chapter 1?

3. What is the ward like where Maga is staying in the hospital, and how does she know when a patient is about to die?

4. What is the last train like that Cibi and Livi take and where are they taken?

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

6. Where do the Hachshara train?

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

8. What is the job the sisters are assigned to do in Chapter 7?

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

10. What does Dr. Kiseley tell Maga when she insists she needs to go home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A flashback is a point in a story where an author takes readers back in time to present information that happened previously. How does Morris use flashbacks to reveal information from the past?

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

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it not a biography?

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