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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 143 through 182.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Scheidel bring Elli?
(a) Raw meat.
(b) Crusts of bread.
(c) Potato scraps.
(d) Clippings of the newspaper.

2. As a young girl screams, what do the female prisoners begin to smell?
(a) Gas.
(b) Rain.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Dinner.

3. What is the setting as the story opens?
(a) The town of Somorja in 1943.
(b) Elli's school in 1945.
(c) Nagymagyar.
(d) The past, in the ghetto.

4. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz the second time, what does she realize?
(a) She is alone.
(b) Laura is quite ill.
(c) Hitler is not dead.
(d) She cannot live much longer.

5. On the day of the scheduled decimation, what happens?
(a) The guards threaten other punishments.
(b) The guards do not come to work.
(c) The women revolt.
(d) The women are forced to work as usual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the town crier announce as forbidden access for Jews?

2. In June, what work do the guards assign Elli and her mother?

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

4. How does Bubbi's father react when he sees the story later in the papers?

5. How does Laura demonstrate affection?

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