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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. Luckily for Gerda and Ilse, they are selected to go to what new camp?

2. What awful rumors are being spread around the camp?

3. What does Gerda create to keep all of the girls' spirits up?

4. How is Abek allowed to see Gerda?

5. On the walk, Gerda is called out by a guard. Gerda thinks she will be shot, but what must she really do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gerda learn about Abek's family in Sosnowitz?

2. How is Abek able to eventually see Gerda?

3. When they are forced to move, where must the girls go and must they travel there?

4. In order to crush the girls' spirits what does the new camp director tell them?

5. Newly arriving girls tell Gerda what hopeful news?

6. What date are the girls forced to go to their new camp?

7. How does Gerda say goodbye to Abek?

8. How long is Gerda at the camp?

9. Why does Gerda begin to convulse after arriving at the Red Cross hospital?

10. When is Gerda given an identifying number?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Abek Feignblatt played an important part of the story, especially through the eyes of Gerda:

a. Why wasn't Abek shipped off with other able bodied men?

b. What do you think happened to his character?

c. What role did Abek's mother and sisters play? How did they avoid being sent to the concentration camp?

Essay Topic 2

When Gerda and her friends are taken to Landeshut by Director Keller, she says tat she feels like she has come home.

a. Why was she overcome with joy?

b. Why do you think Director Keller sent them to Landeshut?

c. Why does Gerda pretend to care for Abek?

Essay Topic 3

In several parts of the story Gerda mentions the garden that once belonged to her family:

a. What was special about the garden in Gerda's mind?

b. How did the garden play a part in her father's recovery?

c. Why was Gerda forced to say goodbye to the garden she loved so much?

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