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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Two weeks following the arrival of the male soldiers, what is happening around the camp?
(a) Guards are disappearing
(b) Girls are disappearing.
(c) Air-raid alarms are increasing.
(d) Bombs are being dropped over the camp more and more.

2. What kinds of letters does Gerda get from Abek?
(a) Letters expressing anger.
(b) Sad, depressing letters.
(c) Letter of remorse for his family.
(d) Romantic feelings.

3. Why is Abek hurt by Gerda's hug?
(a) It lacks passion and love.
(b) She kisses him instead.
(c) Gerda does not look at Abek as she hugs him.
(d) She refuses to hug him.

4. What do the girls overhear that makes them excited?
(a) The SS is being disbanded.
(b) Hitler has decided to release the Jews.
(c) Hitler is dead.
(d) Hitler committed suicide

5. What hard work group is Gerda assigned to at the new camp?
(a) Weaving classes.
(b) Construction duty.
(c) Sewing instruction.
(d) Flak detail.

6. What do a frightened Gerda and Ilse pass on their medical exams?
(a) Pneumonia and TB.
(b) Bedbug, and other pest tests.
(c) Physical test.
(d) Their x-ray tests.

7. What lie does the Camp Director tell the girls to burst their hope?
(a) Hilter is appearing on television.
(b) The Americans have been conquered.
(c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt has died.
(d) The Nazis and Italians have joined forces.

8. Once girls begin losing their monthly periods, what does Gerda long for?
(a) To see her family.
(b) The ability to have a baby.
(c) To date a boy.
(d) A claim to her womanhood and femininity.

9. What does Gerda do with the note?
(a) Keeps it as evidence.
(b) She tears it up before she reads it.
(c) Gives it to Ilse.
(d) Frames the note.

10. How long does Suze think she and Gerda will be at the new work camp?
(a) A year.
(b) Indevinately.
(c) Five years.
(d) Three months.

11. According to Meister Zimmer, what happens to prisoners who do not work well?
(a) They will be moved to a different camp.
(b) They wil be rewarded.
(c) They will get bad work positioned.
(d) They will be exterminated.

12. As planes fly over them, what is the general feeling among all the girls at the camp?
(a) They will soon be killed by the guards.
(b) That they will be shot down.
(c) Hope because their misery will be over.
(d) The Americans are coming to release them.

13. What kind act do the doctors of the hospital do for Gerda?
(a) The doctors give Gerda extra money for working for them.
(b) Perform her wedding ceremony to Kurt.
(c) Treat her for no money.
(d) Pay for her train ticket to Munich.

14. How does Gerda spend her "free time" at the new camp?
(a) Creating plays.
(b) Thinking about her family.
(c) Meeting new girls at the camp.
(d) Wiriting letters to Abek.

15. Where is Kurt stationed so he can be closer to Gerda?
(a) Amursk.
(b) London.
(c) Munich.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the girls approach ________, bombs are falling on the city.

2. What is Malvine Berger's role in the camp?

3. While the Germans lose ground on the Eastern Front, what privileges do the women lose?

4. How does Abek look when Gerda is finally allowed to see him?

5. What are the doctors concerned they will have to do if Gerda does not get better?

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