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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Elli respond to the local woman guessing her age?
(a) "It is always night."
(b) "This too shall pass."
(c) "I have lived a thousand years."
(d) "I am tired."

2. What does Laura keep wrapped around her foot?
(a) A shoelace.
(b) A kerchief.
(c) A compress.
(d) A necklace.

3. If Elli and her mother fail to keep pace at work, what is to be their punishment?
(a) Death.
(b) A standing stall.
(c) Whipping.
(d) Reduced food rations.

4. How does Elli first feel in her new clothes she receives at Augsburg?
(a) Ashamed.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Shocked.

5. On the night of Laura's injury at Auschwitz, what does Elli do?
(a) Cries in her bunk alone.
(b) Remains with Laura.
(c) Barely sleeps.
(d) Keeps praying.

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

7. After Elli returns from her punishment for retrieving her coat, how do Elli and Laura react to the day's events?
(a) They fall into bed, inconsolable.
(b) They physically fight each other.
(c) They do not sleep at all.
(d) They laugh at each other.

8. What does Laura do after she sees a worm in her soup?
(a) Gives it away.
(b) Dumps it out.
(c) Vomits.
(d) Continues to eat it.

9. At Waldlager, when does Bubi begin talking?
(a) After Elli helps him by giving him bread.
(b) After the guards disappear.
(c) When Elli speaks of their father.
(d) When Laura brings him soup.

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

11. How does Elli feel in her home town after the war?
(a) As if she is in danger.
(b) As if she had never left.
(c) As if she does not belong.
(d) As if she is not a Jew.

12. What do the women who shoveled snow at Augsburg find?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Money.

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

14. What is Laura's assignment at Waldlager?
(a) Organizing clothes.
(b) Cleaning the stables.
(c) Working in the kitchen.
(d) Scrubbing the floors.

15. A local woman thinks that Elli is __________years old.
(a) Fifty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Thirty-nine.
(d) Sixty-two.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the guards give the women new clothes at Augsburg, what does Elli receive?

2. After the women waited to travel from Plaszow, what news do they receive?

3. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz the second time, what do the inmates receive?

4. What happens the day the food arrives early at Laura and Elli's work?

5. When women strip for guards, what is the one possession they retain?

(see the answer keys)

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