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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Manci need to be picked up?
(a) She was going to be deported.
(b) She had whooping cough.
(c) She was being released.
(d) She was found to be innocent.

2. What was Mr. Schwartz' response to Mother?
(a) He told her how much it would cost to be smuggled out.
(b) He assured her he would keep Iboya safe.
(c) He said there wasn't any space for her to be smuggled out.
(d) He said that the resistance didn't need her help.

3. What was disturbing to this visitor?
(a) The food rationing.
(b) The injustice of German policies.
(c) The declining influence of the Zionists.
(d) The rising cost of silk stockings.

4. What did Mother have a talk with Mr. Schwartz about?
(a) Putting her daughter in danger.
(b) Helping the resistance.
(c) Going into hiding.
(d) Getting smuggled out of Beregszasz.

5. What plans were made at the places Iboya went in secret?
(a) To escape from Beregszasz.
(b) To harass Jews.
(c) To kill Nazis.
(d) To shelter Jews.

6. What did Lilli decide to give up?
(a) Her plans to emigrate.
(b) Her savings.
(c) Her dream of school.
(d) Her apartment.

7. What did Iboya confess about Mr. Schwartz?
(a) He was smuggling Jews.
(b) He was reporting Jews to the police.
(c) He was a bootlegger.
(d) He was her lover.

8. How has Lilli and Lajos been sent away?
(a) They were caught stealing.
(b) They got sick and were caught.
(c) They were reported as Jews.
(d) They were turned in by informants.

9. What did Dr. Feher give Mother?
(a) Money, and medicine for Manci.
(b) Advice to stay home.
(c) Forged travel papers.
(d) Visas.

10. Where did Piri go to school after being expelled?
(a) At the synagogue.
(b) In the streets.
(c) She stayed home.
(d) At a community center.

11. How did the Sanyi's family escape?
(a) They traveled with fake passports.
(b) They ran to the forests.
(c) They walked over the border.
(d) They stowed away in cargo ships.

12. What did Mother find in her travels?
(a) Manci had been kept at a hospital.
(b) Manci had been shipped away.
(c) Manci had died.
(d) Manci had already escaped.

13. How had Luzja killed herself?
(a) She jumped into the river.
(b) She stepped in front of a train.
(c) She took pills.
(d) She slit her wrists.

14. Iboya volunteered for _______________.
(a) The school.
(b) The Red Cross.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The police.

15. How does Piri characterize the German invasion of Hungary?
(a) Tragic.
(b) Surprising.
(c) Inept.
(d) Inevitable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mother tell Piri?

2. What had led Luzja to kill herself?

3. How did this ultimatum affect Mother?

4. How does Piri characterize the family's Passover dinner?

5. What did the family know was coming?

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