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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. How does Daniel feel when he gives the camera to the kapo?

2. When Daniel is ordered out of the freight car, who helps them out of the car?

3. What other food does Daniel's father barter to get to eat with their rations as Auschwitz?

4. Why is Daniel determined to live?

5. While in quarantine a second time, whom does Daniel tell his stories?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Daniel need to see Erika a day after Adam's death?

2. What is the significance of Rosa's words to Daniel about how to carry on?

3. What is the significance of Daniel's valuables he keeps in the cupboard?

4. How does Adam's death prove that he lived only for revenge?

5. What is the difference between the Americans and the civilians of the Buchenwald in chapter fifteen?

6. When Daniel is captured attempting to hide from deportation to Auschwitz, why does he believe the pictures and Erika are right?

7. When Daniel attempts to get revenge, why doesn't he feel good?

8. What convinces Daniel that his mother is dead?

9. What is the significance of Peter's last words, "Find my family. Tell them. You go to Palestine for me. Remember..." ?

10. Why does Adam talk about the horrors of Auschwitz in a matter of fact tone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Daniel's nightmare after seeing "The Eternal Jew" about Aunt Leah foreshadow her death in Lodz later on? Use the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How is the theme of wisdom portrayed in the novel? What character(s) symbolize wisdom?

Essay Topic 3

Describe what the Hitler Youth uniform symbolizes for Daniel and for others.What does the Hitler Youth uniform symbolize and what motivation does Oma Miriam have for creating a fake one for Daniel? How does this effect him and what does it mean for those who wear real ones? Use the text to support your answer. Use the text to support your answer.

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