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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 in a box Cibi cannot deliver in Chapter 17?

2. What is the name of SS officer Elisabeth Volkenrath's husband?

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

4. What is the name of a girl Cibi and Livi see picking sores in Chapter 15 and whose mother had a bath house in Vranov?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What job is Livi given in Chapter 15?

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

4. What job does Cibi get at Birkenau?

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

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

7. How does Cibi get Magda to their block?

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

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

10. How does Rita cover for Cibi when she is sick in Chapter 15, and why is Cibi not taken to the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

SS officers have a well-deserved reputation for cruelty. How do some SS officers at Auschwitz-Birkenau show kindness? How do some SS officers treat prisoners humanely at times? Do prisoners experience more humane or inhumane treatment from SS officers?

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

Magda finds a sword lily when collecting wood with her grandfather. What does the sword lily symbolize and why?

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