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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 do the girls see when they wake after sleeping by a lake in Chapter 24?

2. Where do Cibi, Livi, and Magda work when they are at Retzow?

3. Where do Livi and Magda take a ship in Chapter 27?

4. What is the name of a girl Livi has to share the punishment of the hole with?

5. How many girls are hanged in Chapter 22 for smuggling explosives to blow up Crematoria Two?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What job does Cibi get at Birkenau?

3. In Chapter 19, who becomes the supervisor at the post office where Cibi works, and how does she treat the girls?

4. What job is Livi given in Chapter 15?

5. How are the prisoners transported to Ravensbruck after their long march?

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

7. What shelter do Cibi. Livi, Magda, and the other women find in Chapter 24?

8. What happens when Russian soldiers arrive at the castle where Cibi and her group are staying?

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

10. What happens to Cibi's mother and grandfather, and what is she allowed to keep of theirs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Cibi, Magda, and Livi are welcomed along with the other Jews who go to Prague after the war. Why is Cibi unsure how to accept the welcome? Why does she believe the welcome is hypocritical?

Essay Topic 3

The sisters and other characters struggle with guilt. Why do the sisters and other characters struggle with guilt? Why does surviving make them feel guilty?

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