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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the Muhldorf train station, Elli and Laura lose sight of whom?
(a) The SS guards.
(b) Bubi.
(c) Each other.
(d) Aunt Celia.

3. What time do Elli and Laura take a daily lunch break?
(a) Noon.
(b) 11:00 a.m.
(c) They never receive a lunch break.
(d) 1:30 p.m.

4. What convinces Elli of her father's death?
(a) The sunset.
(b) A dream.
(c) Another prisoner's message.
(d) A guard.

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

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

7. What happens the day the food arrives early at Laura and Elli's work?
(a) Animals eat the food.
(b) The food becomes putrid in the hot sun.
(c) The food turns cold.
(d) Other prisoners steal the food.

8. When the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what do the guards tell the prisoners?
(a) To come to the window of the cars for hot soup.
(b) To lie to locals about their situations.
(c) To steal food if they want some.
(d) To stay on the trains.

9. On the train, why could a girl not see?
(a) She was shot in the eye.
(b) She had poison in her eye.
(c) She stabbed herself.
(d) She had a needle in her eye.

10. After Elli's last train ride under the German soldiers' control, who is there when the doors open?
(a) Josef Mengele.
(b) Local townpeople.
(c) More German soldiers.
(d) American soldiers.

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

12. As the women traveled, what makes them feel better?
(a) Food.
(b) People cheering them on.
(c) The cooling air temperature.
(d) Sleep.

13. After the war, what do the three vow?
(a) Never to marry.
(b) Always to pray.
(c) Always to save money.
(d) Never to separate.

14. When Elli returns from her punishment for retrieving her coat, what has her mother done?
(a) Kept bread for Elli.
(b) Found Elli's coat.
(c) Saved her soup for Elli.
(d) Stolen an extra blanket for Elli.

15. How is Laura severely injured at Auschwitz?
(a) A soldier beat her head.
(b) A bed pinned Laura in an unnatural position.
(c) A train ran her over.
(d) A guard shot her foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. At Waldlager, when does Bubi begin talking?

2. What is discovered when the women arrive at Camp Landsberg?

3. How does Laura respond when the military guard asks her if she can hurry?

4. When the train traveling from the Muhldorf train station stops near a cornfield, what do many prisoners do?

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

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