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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 23, to what camp are the prisoners taken?

2. In Chapter 15, what is the name of a kapo Livi sees beat prisoners with a baton?

3. What does a farmer give the girls in Chapter 24?

4. What does Cibi find in Chapter 15 that she tries to feed Livi when she gets sick?

5. In Chapter 23, when Cibi, Livi, and Magda arrive at another concentration camp, how long has it been since they ate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Cibi, Livi, Magda, and seven other girls leave the march from Retzow?

2. In Chapter 15, what happens when Livi is in the hospital?

3. Where does Magda spend the night in Chapter 16?

4. What job does Cibi get at Birkenau?

5. How do prisoners try to blow up a crematoria?

6. How is Magda caught by Visik, a Hlinka guard?

7. In Chapter 14, what does Cibi remember doing in 1939?

8. Why is Livi punished by being put in the hole?

9. On the death march in Chapter 23, what do the sisters remember they used to make?

10. What news does Uncle Ivan have in Chapter 18?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view of Three Sisters? How does the way that the third-person narrator follows different characters influence what readers know about events and characters? How does having the narrator follow different characters help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 2

Setting is the place and time where a novel takes place. What is the setting in Three Sisters? How does the setting evoke feelings or set the mood in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Prisoners at Auschwitz have their identities stripped from them. How are the identities of prisoners stripped from them? How are Cibi and Livi and other prisoners dehumanized by the loss of their identities?

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