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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 do Marta Kalman and her mother bring Elli?

2. Why does a girl have blood running down her leg?

3. How does Bubbi's father react when he sees the story later in the papers?

4. How does Bubi react to the news from the town crier?

5. For what does Old Mr. Stern pray?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What honesty does the chapter "Teen Vanity" bring to the book?

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

5. What is Elli's fear as she and Laura leave Auschwitz the first time?

6. Why does Elli and her mother go to the cemetery before leaving for the ghetto?

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

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

9. What is the irony of Laura's excitement about moving to a work camp?

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

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

What made Elli live "for a thousand years"?

Essay Topic 3

Laura faced numerous conflicts, both internally and externally. What were her greatest conflicts, and whom did they most affect?

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