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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. How does Elli respond to the local woman guessing her age?
(a) "I have lived a thousand years."
(b) "It is always night."
(c) "This too shall pass."
(d) "I am tired."
2. At the Muhldorf train station, Elli and Laura lose sight of whom?
(a) Each other.
(b) The SS guards.
(c) Bubi.
(d) Aunt Celia.
3. What happens the day the food arrives early at Laura and Elli's work?
(a) The food becomes putrid in the hot sun.
(b) The food turns cold.
(c) Animals eat the food.
(d) Other prisoners steal the food.
4. When Elli arrives at Auschwitz the second time, what happens to the bed above Elli and Laura?
(a) It is lumpy.
(b) It shatters.
(c) It has a broken plank.
(d) It is taken away.
5. In June, what work do the guards assign Elli and her mother?
(a) Assembling guns.
(b) Sewing blankets.
(c) Cleaning clothes.
(d) Leveling a hillside.
Short Answer Questions
1. After the war, what do the three vow?
2. After Elli returns from her punishment for retrieving her coat, how do Elli and Laura react to the day's events?
3. What does the family see on April 7, 1951?
4. What is Laura's assignment at Waldlager?
5. How does Laura make a lamp for the Sabbath at Augsburg?
Short Essay Questions
1. What makes traveling to Auschwitz so difficult?
2. Why does the entire barrack stay up at night reading a prayer book?
3. Why does Elli jump on the guard's back?
4. What is Elli's internal conflict about making parts for German aircraft?
5. What are Elli's confused feelings when the women learn about the attempted uprising?
6. What does the interaction between Bubi and Laura at the Muhldorf train station show readers?
7. What is the difficulty the women face after the group of men and women from the uprising are killed?
8. What do Elli and Laura do with the saved soup? Why?
9. What do the women's sleeping arrangements at Auschwitz demonstrate about their treatment?
10. What would lead the local woman to believe Elli is "sixty or sixty-two" years old?
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