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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elli learn from the town crier?

2. On what does Elli's poetry focus?

3. When Elli and Laura arrive at the waiting cart for Nagymagar, why are the soldiers angry?

4. Why does Elli believe her mother slights her?

5. The night before the men are to leave for work camp, what does Laura pack for their trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the new rule that Jews are not to socialize at all with Christians do to Elli and her family?

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

3. What happens to the prisoners when they arrive at Auschwitz?

4. Why is Bubi's reaction to the law concerning yellow stars typical of his personality?

5. What is the mood when the women smell gas behind closed doors?

6. Why does Elli refuse to go out in her town?

7. What is ironic about the guards telling the prisoners to leave their possessions on the cattle cars?

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

9. Why would Bubi's father ignore his story concerning Budapest?

10. Describe Laura's "lack of affection."

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the greatest internal conflict a concentration camp prisoner faced? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Considering Jewish beliefs and customs, what were purposeful and degrading rituals at concentration camps?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze Elli's dream the night her father died. How did this dream prove that her father was dead?

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