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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 101 through 142.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elli learn from the town crier?
(a) Jews are not to shop at the grocery market.
(b) All Jews are to stay inside during the day.
(c) Jews are not to speak to Christians.
(d) All Jews are to wear a yellow cloth star.

2. What do the aunt and cousins say about Elli and her mother's reaction to their first serving of food at Auschwitz?
(a) To give it to them.
(b) To throw it away.
(c) To send it back to the kitchen.
(d) To try eating more again.

3. What does Aunt Celia do on June 9 and 10?
(a) Beats a guard.
(b) Trades places with another woman.
(c) Steals food from the kitchen.
(d) Takes more blankets.

4. At what point does Elli say she is a true concentration camp inmate?
(a) At seven and a half weeks.
(b) The first day.
(c) When a friend dies.
(d) After a month.

5. How do the guards carry out an act of decimation?
(a) Prisoners are forced awake for days.
(b) Prisoners must choose which one dies.
(c) Prisoners form a line, and every tenth one is shot.
(d) Prisoners work without food or water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elli's father show her in the basement?

2. On what does Elli's poetry focus?

3. As the guards order women to take their blankets inside, what do they do to the women?

4. Where do Laura and Elli visit before they traveled to Nagymagyar?

5. What are the overall living conditions in "The Ghetto" for Jewish families?

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