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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 the name of the Hotel where Paul is staying in Chapter 24?

2. How many times in Kasia operated on?

3. What color triangles do the Jules wear?

4. How is Kasia released from the Revier?

5. How dose Herta describe Elfriede Suhren?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Herr Fenstermacher do for Zuzanna on Christmas? What does this do for her?

2. How does Caroline treat Paul once she has found his child in Chapter 36? Do you think this is right?

3. What does Herta’s escape from Ravensbruck in Chapter 26 reveal about her character?

4. What is the camp’s reaction to the rabbits?

5. What are the results of the Nuremburg trials for the guards and doctors of Ravensbruck?

6. How do Zuzanna and Kasia escape from Ravensbruck?

7. What does Rena ask Caroline when she returns to France? What is Caroline’s reaction?

8. How dose Kasia leave the recovery ward of the Revier?

9. What is Kasia’s reaction when she learns that Matka is gone?

10. Why does Kasia not want to name the baby Halina?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although Herta is a German Aryan, she is not completely protected from the discrimination of the Nazi Party. How does Herta experience discrimination?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 14, Herta discusses how she cuts herself to relieve stress. What is this self-mutilation a symptom of for Herta? What does it reveal about her personality? What could it symbolize?

Essay Topic 3

Zuzanna and Kasia clearly love one another, but their relationship is complicated. Do the sisters provide strength or weakness for one another throughout the text?

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