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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the family see on April 7, 1951?
(a) New York.
(b) The Constitution of America.
(c) The Statue of Liberty.
(d) The Eiffel Tower.

2. What do the local people say concerning the concentration camps?
(a) They knew nothing of them.
(b) They could not break into them.
(c) They sneaked food in them.
(d) They stole money from them.

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

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

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

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

7. How does Elli feel about completing a complex part for her work at Augsburg?
(a) She is relieved.
(b) She is toiling against herself.
(c) She is exhausted from thinking.
(d) She is sad.

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

9. During the rainstorm, what does the commander tell the women?
(a) To go inside.
(b) To continue working.
(c) To be quiet.
(d) To work faster.

10. When a man is shot and left for dead, what does he do before guards finally kill him?
(a) Hurls himself at an SS guard.
(b) Shoots a guard.
(c) Runs down the tracks.
(d) Opens the door.

11. When the train from Muhldorf pulls into a station at noon, what is there?
(a) Trucks with red crosses painted on them.
(b) A group of bystanders, who throw food at the prisoners.
(c) New guards.
(d) More priosners.

12. Immediately following their freedom, what confuses Elli and the other passengers?
(a) The men speak Polish.
(b) The men tell them to get off the train.
(c) The men who opened the doors speak a different language.
(d) The men offer them food.

13. How do Elli, Laura, and Bubi make the trip home?
(a) With help from American soldiers and a train.
(b) In a bus.
(c) On an airplane.
(d) With money from the locals.

14. When Elli arrived at Auschwitz the second time, what are the new barracks like?
(a) They are made of metal.
(b) They are tiers of bunks.
(c) They are cleaner than their previous ones.
(d) They have no blankets.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When do Elli, Laura, and Bubi begin making the trip home?

2. After the women's first night at Augsburg, how do the women react to their treatment?

3. When the prisoners leaves the cars for the final time, what do the local people do?

4. What is Elli's punishment for visiting her mother every morning at the infirmary?

5. Where does Bubi receive permission to attend school after the war?

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