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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the rabbis start to sing according to Sara?
(a) The Masoretes.
(b) The Lekha Dodi.
(c) The Kol Nidrei.
(d) The Songs of Ascents.

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

3. What did Sara find on the road she was traveling on?
(a) Other prisoners that escaped.
(b) Russian soldiers.
(c) Dead children.
(d) Fleeing Germans.

4. What does Sara say that she and the other women hoped for?
(a) Mala's capture.
(b) That Mala would make it to the Russians.
(c) A quick death for Mala.
(d) The Mala would spread the word of what was happening inside the camp.

5. What did Mengele do to the ones he brought to the infirmary in November?
(a) Treated their wounds.
(b) Sent them to the gas chambers.
(c) Fed them.
(d) Killed them with phenol injections.

6. 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.

7. What camp was Sara relocated to after Auschwitz?
(a) Ravensbruck.
(b) Bukenvald.
(c) Treblinka.
(d) Rostock

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

9. What did the women want according to Sara in Chapter 37?
(a) Clean clothes.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Food.
(d) Water.

10. What does the Editor say some prisoners did with their value system?
(a) They forgot it.
(b) They tried to force it upon others.
(c) They adjusted it to the camp life.
(d) They hold on to it.

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

12. How many girls from Krakow did Mrs. Helena say were killed by Mengele in Chapter 29?
(a) 25.
(b) 356.
(c) 459.
(d) 156.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sara say the prisoners started singing at midnight on New Years Eve 1944?

2. What does Sara wonder about a person's death?

3. Who does Sara introduce in Chapter 30?

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

5. What did Sara refuse to do according to Chapter 37?

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