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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. How does Elli first feel in her new clothes she receives at Augsburg?

2. Later, after she has the clothes for a bit, how does Elli feel in her new clothes she receives at Augsburg?

3. How long wis Elli and Laura's lunch break?

4. What do Elli and Laura do the night before the scheduled decimation?

5. After Elli's last train ride under the German soldiers' control, who is there when the doors open?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the importance of Laura keeping her handkerchief?

2. Why does Elli feel so different about her town after the war?

3. What is sad concerning Laura and Elli's work on leveling a hillside in preparation of construction?

4. Why does the family make plans to leave their home town?

5. What does the interaction between Bubi and Laura at the Muhldorf train station show readers?

6. Why does Elli call her and her mother's reunion a "divine miracle"?

7. What are Elli's confused feelings when the women learn about the attempted uprising?

8. Why do other women help Elli with her mother?

9. How do the prisoners behave on the cars that leave from the Muhldorf train station?

10. Why does the entire barrack stay up at night reading a prayer book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How was Elli's relationship with her father influential throughout the book? Comment on her actions after his death as well.

Essay Topic 2

How was clothing used as a symbol throughout Elli's journey?

Essay Topic 3

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

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