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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the SS do with Mala after her short stay at the hospital?
(a) Brought her to the gas chamber.
(b) Buried her.
(c) Put her back in her block.
(d) Let her rot in the mud.

2. What does the Editor say distorts the story of some Holocaust witnesses?
(a) Their young age at the time.
(b) Their old age.
(c) The psychological trauma.
(d) The survivors guilt.

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

4. What does Sara say filled the open space of the camp the previous New Year?
(a) Singing and drunk Germans.
(b) Snow.
(c) German civilians.
(d) Dead prisoners.

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

6. What country did Sara return to in 1945?
(a) Russia.
(b) Slovakia.
(c) People's Poland.
(d) USSR.

7. How was the camp often awakened in April 1945 according to Sara?
(a) By SS soldiers.
(b) By Russian soldiers.
(c) By U.S soldiers.
(d) By bombing sirens.

8. When did the SS decide to evacuate the camp Sara was at in early 1945?
(a) April 1.
(b) April 10.
(c) April 20.
(d) April 30.

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

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

11. What did the speech reprinted in the newspaper in Chapter 33 say to resist?
(a) Pity for the Germans.
(b) Fear of the Germans.
(c) Vengeance.
(d) Fear of death.

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

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

14. Who did the resistance arrange for Hans to do?
(a) Infiltrate the camp as a guard.
(b) Infiltrate the camp as a prisoner.
(c) Be captured.
(d) Work near the Infirmary.

15. How were the rabbis dressed in Chapter 27?
(a) They were naked.
(b) In German uniforms.
(c) In ceremonial garb.
(d) In rags.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose speech was printed in the news paper Orli gave Sara and the others?

2. Who thought that depriving a human being of the knowledge of death is depriving them of their dignity?

3. What did the rabbis start to sing according to Sara?

4. What does Sara wonder at the start of Chapter 25?

5. When were Mala and her boyfriend caught after their escape?

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