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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sara say their was few of in Auschwitz?
(a) Killings.
(b) Marriages.
(c) Suicides.
(d) Births.

2. What does the Editor say Sara displays a particular interest in as a method of expression?
(a) The infirmary.
(b) Events.
(c) Fear.
(d) Characters.

3. What did the SS soldiers know by the time of the 1945 New Year?
(a) That the war was lost.
(b) That they would have to flee.
(c) That they could not kill everyone in the camp.
(d) That they would be captured.

4. Where were the rabbis in Chapter 27 from according to Sara?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Poland.

5. What awoke the infirmary workers two weeks after the New Year?
(a) Bombs and gunfire.
(b) Sound of rifle butts banging at the gate.
(c) Thunder.
(d) Screams and shouting.

6. What newspaper did Orli give Sara and her friends?
(a) Goebbels.
(b) The Pravda.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Washington Post.

7. What news did Hans bring to Auschwitz?
(a) The capitulation of Germany.
(b) The bombing of Dresden.
(c) The American landing in Normandy.
(d) The Red Army crossed into Prussia.

8. What were the prisoners receiving according to Sara in Chapter 31?
(a) More water.
(b) Showers.
(c) New clothes.
(d) Packages of food.

9. What does Sara say the women at the camp could not process?
(a) Thoughts of their freedom.
(b) Protein.
(c) Fats and sugar.
(d) Water.

10. What does Sara wonder at the start of Chapter 25?
(a) How she could have let herself be captured.
(b) How to put a price on a life.
(c) Why she couldn't save anyone.
(d) How she was able to survive.

11. What does Sara's story stimulate the Reader to do according to the Editor?
(a) Learn about her.
(b) Think on complex issues.
(c) Think about the Jewish faith.
(d) Learn more about the Holocaust.

12. What does the Editor argue prisoners in concentration camp relied on when telling their story?
(a) Grief.
(b) Regret.
(c) Imaginatives.
(d) Too old for memories.

13. How does the Editor qualify Sara's memories?
(a) Simple.
(b) Accurate.
(c) Good.
(d) Disturbing.

14. What does Sara say sirens sounding meant in Chapter 26?
(a) Meal time.
(b) An escape.
(c) A bombing.
(d) An escape or a bombing.

15. What does Sara say she did not know how to handle in Chapter 39?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Attention.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the SS refuse to let the prisoners read according to Sara?

2. Who did the resistance arrange for Hans to do?

3. What did Sara and the others not have to do at the new camp?

4. Who came the the infirmary to take all of the hospital documents?

5. What was the date when all the hospital documents were taken away?

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