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

2. What is the name of a girl Cibi, Livi, and Magda take with them in Chapter 23?

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

4. When is Livi's birthday?

5. In Chapter 22, how many days are the girls' bodies left hanging on the gallows?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 26, why do Cibi, Magda, and Livi return to Bratislava after going to Vranov?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Where do Cibi and her group find the Americans and what happens next?

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

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

In Three Sisters, some characters are three-dimensional and others are two-dimensional. Who are some characters that are merely named in passing or have a minor role in the novel? What is the importance of these flat characters to the story line? In what way do these characters make the main characters more colorful or interesting? When there is conflict, what type of role do these flat characters play?

Essay Topic 3

Livi is shocked when she learns her head has been shaved. Why is Livi shocked when she learns her head has been shaved? How did she dissociate when her head was being shaved? Why is dissociation a useful skill in the concentration camp?

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