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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 dresses do the girls make from curtains in Chapter 25?

2. In Chapter 25, where does Eva have to go?

3. In Chapter 17,what is the name of a family camp established within Birkenau?

4. Who helps get Magda to Auschwitz in Chapter 22?

5. What type of tree does Magda remember finding the sword lilly when she tells the story to her sisters in Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the prisoners transported to Ravensbruck after their long march?

2. Where do Cibi and her group find the Americans and what happens next?

3. How do prisoners try to blow up a crematoria?

4. How is Magda caught by Visik, a Hlinka guard?

5. On the death march in Chapter 23, what do the sisters remember they used to make?

6. What news does Uncle Ivan have in Chapter 18?

7. What job does Cibi get at Birkenau?

8. What shelter do Cibi. Livi, Magda, and the other women find in Chapter 24?

9. In Chapter 15, what happens when Livi is in the hospital?

10. In Chapter 26, why do Cibi, Magda, and Livi return to Bratislava after going to Vranov?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Livi is shocked when she learns her head has been shaved. Why is Livi shocked when she learns her head has been shaved? How did she dissociate when her head was being shaved? Why is dissociation a useful skill in the concentration camp?

Essay Topic 2

Menachem has his daughters make a promise. What does he ask his girls to promise? Why is the promise important to him and to them?

Essay Topic 3

A flashback is a point in a story where an author takes readers back in time to present information that happened previously. How does Morris use flashbacks to reveal information from the past?

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