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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Elli finally place her poetry journal before leaving for the work camps?
(a) Gives it to Pista Szivos.
(b) Leaves it on her bed.
(c) Buries it in the synogogue.
(d) Puts it in a trash can.

2. How was food distributed at Auschwitz?
(a) In brown bags.
(b) A single portion to five people.
(c) Only in the morning.
(d) At the prisoners' beds.

3. How does Elli work in school?
(a) She does not concentrate well.
(b) She is sloppy in her work.
(c) She makes good grades easily.
(d) She is incredibly ambitious.

4. The night before they are to leave for work camp, what is Elli's final image of her father?
(a) Him patting Bubi.
(b) Him kissing her goodbye.
(c) Laura hugging him.
(d) Only the shape of him riding away.

5. Who is head of the barracks and inmates at Auschwitz?
(a) A large eighteen-year-old girl.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A nun.
(d) A boy, passing himself off as a female.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Bonnie and Elli go to swim?

2. What is each family supposed to take to Nagymagyar?

3. How does Bubbi attain good grades in school?

4. What story does Bubbi tell his family in the middle of the night?

5. Why does Elli's father think ambition is a desirable trait?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Elli's father become like "a statue of stone" as the family prepares for Nagymagyar?

2. What is Bubi's relationship with other people?

3. At the start of her story, how do Elli's actions as her life starts to change indirectly describe her?

4. Why does Dr. Mengele tell Laura that Elli needs her more than Aunt Serene does?

5. What is the girl like who oversees the barracks?

6. What reactions does Elli's poetry bring from her parents?

7. Why is the first chapter titled "The City of My Dreams"?

8. Why do the guards hit the women who bring blankets outside?

9. What does Elli's relationship with Jansci bring to her life?

10. What does Elli's father spend his last night doing before he leaves for a labor camp, and what does this tell readers about him?

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