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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When the women arrive in Augsburg, what initially confuses the military guards?
(a) They think the SS would be more helpful.
(b) They think the women are to be stronger.
(c) They think the women are men.
(d) They think fewer prisoners are coming.

4. What do the soldiers remove from the train cars?
(a) Valuables.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Corpses.
(d) Bibles.

5. How does Laura respond when the military guard asks her if she can hurry?
(a) Her daughter needs her to stay back.
(b) She does not care.
(c) She does not want to hurry.
(d) She can not go faster.

6. What is discovered when the women arrive at Camp Landsberg?
(a) Camp Landsberg is full of men.
(b) Camp Landsberg is filled to capacity.
(c) The women are too weak to work.
(d) Too many women have died.

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

8. After the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what happens as the prisoners stand outside the cars?
(a) Gunfire erupts.
(b) SS soldiers run away.
(c) Bombs drop.
(d) Trains crash.

9. When women strip for guards, what is the one possession they retain?
(a) Their underwear.
(b) Their shoes.
(c) Their blankets.
(d) Their socks.

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

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

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

13. In June, what work do the guards assign Elli and her mother?
(a) Cleaning clothes.
(b) Leveling a hillside.
(c) Assembling guns.
(d) Sewing blankets.

14. When the guards give the women new clothes at Augsburg, what does Elli receive?
(a) A pink dress and worn coat.
(b) A rough dress and small shoes.
(c) Ugly pants and a thin shirt.
(d) Comfortable shoes and a warm coat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Laura's assignment at Waldlager?

2. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz the second time, what happens to the bed above Elli and Laura?

3. Why are the women often forced to strip?

4. During the rainstorm, what does the commander tell the women?

5. What happens to Laura as she struggles because of her partial paralysis?

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