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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. What does Dita think she might have liked to become if she could have gone on with her studies in Chapter 22?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Pilot.
(d) Lawyer.

2. What does Dita call the library in the family block in Chapter 20?
(a) Life raft.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Life preserver.
(d) First-aid kit.

3. Where is the person that Dita and her mother must share a bed with from in Chapter 25?
(a) Germany.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Holland.
(d) Czechoslovakia.

4. At the end of Chapter 23, how close do Rudi and Fred come to being discovered after their escape?
(a) 11 centimeters.
(b) 8 centimeters.
(c) 4 or 5 centimeters.
(d) 2 or 3 centimeters.

5. In Chapter 26, what nationality is the maintenance worker who tries to talk to Dita?
(a) Czech.
(b) Polish.
(c) Austrian.
(d) Romanian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was name of the librarian of Block 31 who inspired the story?

2. In Chapter 23, how many children are in Block 31?

3. In Chapter 21, how old is Renee's mother?

4. In Chapter 25, when does another transport arrive in the family camp from Terezin?

5. In Chapter 22, why does the Resistance think that Hirsch died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dita discover in Chapter 32 when she goes to find Margit and her father?

2. In Chapter 31, why do Dita and Liesl have to wait to transfer to Prague?

3. In Chapter 23, how close do Rudi and Fred come to being captured?

4. What is something that Mengele is celebrated for in Chapter 21?

5. Who is Richard Keller, and how does he accept his incarceration in Auschwitz?

6. In Chapter 20, what falls from the sky, and how does Miriam Edelstein describe what falls?

7. Why does Hirsch not want to start an uprising?

8. In Chapter 30, what were the British soldiers expecting when they freed Bergen-Belsen?

9. What is Passover?

10. What are Renee's thoughts about Viktor, the SS guard?

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