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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has it been since Gerda was allowed to take a bath?
(a) Three years.
(b) Five days.
(c) Three days.
(d) Two years.

2. On the walk, Gerda is called out by a guard. Gerda thinks she will be shot, but what must she really do?
(a) Be put in the sick car.
(b) Threaten other girls to keep going.
(c) Carry other girls.
(d) Move dead bodies.

3. How often are the girls allowed to take showers?
(a) Every other month.
(b) Every two weeks.
(c) Every other day.
(d) Never.

4. What is Gerda's new work assignment?
(a) She must dig graves.
(b) She works in accounting.
(c) She has to learn to weave.
(d) She count jewelry.

5. What happens to girls that lag behind?
(a) They are left for dead.
(b) The guards use cars to drag their dead bodies.
(c) They are beaten; if they don't move they are shot.
(d) The Germans leave them alone.

6. What are the rumors surrounding the camp about Poland?
(a) The Russians have taken control of Poland.
(b) America has been taken over by the Germans.
(c) The war will soon be over.
(d) The Nazis have won.

7. What words describe Frau Kugler?
(a) Grim and militaristic.
(b) Strange.
(c) Secretly kind.
(d) Stupid and inept.

8. What awful rumors are being spread around the camp?
(a) Jewish girls are raped every day.
(b) Jewish men are being castrated.
(c) Jewish girls are being sterilized.
(d) Girls are being forced to sleep with guards.

9. What kind of hope does Frau Kugler give Gerda?
(a) That she will see Gerda again.
(b) The hope that not all Germans are cruel.
(c) That other Germans will be kind to her.
(d) That the war will end soon.

10. Why does Gerda agree to marry Abek if she does not love him?
(a) Gerda deeply loves Abek.
(b) She does not agree to marry Abek.
(c) She wants a future for herself.
(d) She wants to make him feel better.

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

12. What is different about the new camp?
(a) It is cleaner and nicer than Dulag.
(b) It is very dirty.
(c) The guards are nicer.
(d) The guards are meaner.

13. Where is the new camp located?
(a) Marine Park.
(b) Czech Republic.
(c) Budacrest.
(d) Bolkenhain.

14. What did Abek give up to be closer to Gerda?
(a) Accountant.
(b) Hospital attendant.
(c) A job of portrait painting at a nearby camp.
(d) A clerk in the accounting section.

15. What is Gerda now resigned to?
(a) Never having children.
(b) Spending time with Abek.
(c) Marrying Abek even though she does not love him.
(d) Dying in the camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls eat to stay alive as they sleep outside of the church?

2. How many stars of David do the girls have to wear on their bodies?

3. What is the most dangerous part of the new camp, Grunberg?

4. After the war, what does Gerda do with her life?

5. One day someone throws the girl in front of Gerda a piece of bread. A guard sees the girl pick up the bread and starts interrogating everyone around her. Why is Gerda beaten by the guard?

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