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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose speech was printed in the news paper Orli gave Sara and the others?
(a) Goebbel's.
(b) Ilya Ehrenburg's.
(c) Hitler's.
(d) Stalin's.

2. What does the editors say some Jewish people struggle with?
(a) Survivors guilt.
(b) Life.
(c) Freedom.
(d) The history of the Holocaust.

3. What does Sara say ultimately happened to Mala?
(a) An SS guard suffocated her.
(b) An SS guard shot her.
(c) She died in the gas chamber.
(d) An SS guard drowned her.

4. What was the date when all the hospital documents were taken away?
(a) January 15, 1946.
(b) January 17, 1945.
(c) January 17, 1944.
(d) January 23, 1944.

5. What did Sara and the others not have to do at the new camp?
(a) Burn bodies.
(b) Work.
(c) Clean.
(d) Have roll call.

6. What did Mala do on her way to her execution?
(a) Shot herself.
(b) Tried to escape.
(c) Tried to kill a guard.
(d) Slit her wrists.

7. What did the SS refuse to let the prisoners read according to Sara?
(a) American magazines.
(b) Books in Yiddish.
(c) Leaflets telling them of their impending liberation.
(d) Leaflets telling them of their impending death.

8. What does the Editor say the story of Fela illustrates?
(a) How people change.
(b) The lack of morality in the camp.
(c) The fragile state of the human psyche.
(d) The effect of the story as a whole.

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

10. What did the camp members start to yearn for after reading the newspaper in Chapter 33?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Food.
(c) Death.
(d) Fear.

11. What does the editor claim the Holocaust did for Western civilization?
(a) Taught empathy.
(b) Forced them to accept others.
(c) Raised questions.
(d) Taught restraint.

12. How long did Mala resist torture at the hands of the SS?
(a) For a few minutes.
(b) For weeks.
(c) For hours.
(d) For days.

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

14. How does the Editor qualify Sara's stories?
(a) Exaggerated.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Simply told.
(d) True.

15. What does Sara say many believed about the world after the defeat of the Germans?
(a) They would not live to see it.
(b) It would come to an end.
(c) It would begin anew.
(d) Zion would be theirs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was present in Rostock at the same time as Sara?

2. What does Sara say she did not know how to handle in Chapter 39?

3. What was Mala's boyfriend's name?

4. What does Sara say filled the open space of the camp the previous New Year?

5. What did Sara notice about the Rostock military airport in Chapter 37?

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