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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 does Lina learn about Jonas?
2. What does Lina wonder about the visitors?
3. How many people are in their group?
4. What have Andrius and his mother decided to do?
5. What is Lina going to be asked to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Kretsky show his humanity after they have frightened the women?
2. What do readers learn in the Epilogue?
3. What happens to Jonas?
4. What does Lina observe about Andrius' mother when Lina slips away after eating her potato that Jonas brought?
5. What has Hitler done in Lithuania, and what is the bald man's response to the action?
6. What event makes Lina and Elena decide to stop asking for extra food for Jonas?
7. What news does Mrs. Rimas recieve in a letter and how is it coded?
8. Describe the encounter between Kretsky and Lina at the wood pile.
9. How do the others help Lina celebrate her sixteenth birthday?
10. What causes Lina to appreciate the risk that some take to get food for others?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?
2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of "Between Shades of Gray", identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?
3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements in "Between Shades of Gray". (The subplots may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
The fact that the priest is issuing last rites as the train pulls away from the station is a significant indication that others know what's happening to those on the train. This is another question that's asked repeatedly about the atrocities performed by Stalin and Hitler. Why didn't people object? There isn't an easy answer and this question, like the question of why so many went quietly to their deaths, is left to the reader to decide. Discuss the following;
1. How much power does an individual have to end atrocities such as that demonstrated in "Between Shades of Gray"?
2. What characters intervene in the misuse of power and how do they do so? What is the outcome?
3. Do individuals have a moral obligation to try to stop the misuse of power? What about in small ways, such as dealing with a bully?
4. Compare the misuse of power by a dictator to that by a school bully. How are they alike? Different? Is it likely a dictator was a bully as a young person?
Essay Topic 3
Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:
1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?
2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?
3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?
4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.
5. What type of plot do you think Between Shades of Gray is? Explain your response.
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