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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 type of cookie does Yitzchak give Magda when she goes to hide in Chapter 16?

2. In Chapter 17,what is the name of a family camp established within Birkenau?

3. How long do the girls have to wait in Chapter 25 for a train from Bratislava to Vranov?

4. In Chapter 23, to what camp are the prisoners taken?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What job does Cibi get at Birkenau?

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

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

7. How does Cibi get Magda to their block?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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