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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 color stones are in the earrings Cibi has to remove in Chapter 7?

2. In Chapter 6, where do the girls diembark from the train?

3. How many people have to sleep in a bunk in Chapter 10?

4. About how many people does Cibi think are in the barracks where Cibi and Livi are taken?

5. Where is Livi to go when she reports to work for the Germans?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Menachem ask his daughters to always promise to take care of one another?

2. What does the new kapo, Rita, tell Cibi and Livi their first morning at Birkenau?

3. What work do the sisters do in Chapter 11?

4. Why does Dr. Kisely put Magda in the hospital in Chapter 1?

5. In Chapter 1, where is Cibi?

6. What does Magda have to do each Friday?

7. Who helps Cibi when her feet are ravaged with frostbite?

8. In Chapter 10, why does the kapo, Ingrid, tell the sisters not to ride in the trucks to their new quarters at Birkenau?

9. How does Magda take the news that her sisters are gone?

10. In Chapter 8, what does Chaya do while she waits for Magda to get home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Magda finds a sword lily when collecting wood with her grandfather. What does the sword lily symbolize and why?

Essay Topic 2

Cibi frequently remembers the girls they took blankets from. Why does Cibi frequently remember the girls they took blankets from? Why does she wonder if she is complicit in their deaths?

Essay Topic 3

Mala, an interpreter, escapes and then is recaptured. What choice does Mala make when she is returned to the camp? How does she keep a sense of freedom through her decision?

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