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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 is Anna to do while Mark and Jonas complete the mission?

2. What does McConnell believe he and Stern are being used as?

3. What is Sturm's relationship to Schorner?

4. What is Mark to do if Stern does not return from placing the cylinders in the camp?

5. What happens to the first SS soldiers to investigate the smoke coming from the kennels?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happens when the Nazi soldiers break in the door of Anna's cottage.

2. What do Mark, Stern, and Anna plan in Chapter 33 in order to carry out their mission?

3. Why does Brandt ask to meet with Schorner in Chapter 31, and how does Schorner react?

4. Describe what happens during Mark and Stern's return to Anna's cottage after retrieving the cylinders.

5. What happens when Stern notices five men standing between the Women's Block and E Block?

6. What stops the argument between Schorner and Sturm in Chapter 26?

7. In Chapter 30 what reason does Anna give Mark for spying on the Nazis?

8. What does Stern tell Mark about their mission in Chapter 28?

9. What does Anna tell McConnell and Stern when she returns to her cottage in Chapter 36?

10. Describe what happens when the gas is deployed in Chapter 46 and how Sturm is killed.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the first person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would the novel be different if a different point of view were used?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the characters of Jonas Stern and Mark McConnell.

Essay Topic 3

As there are many, please describe and compare three instances of manipulation of the characters and the results of these manipulations.

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