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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 did Sage usually do when she and her mother went to Minka's house to help her after she had cancer surgery?

2. How many hours did Darija and Minka have to hold up Agnat in line, even though the girl was dead?

3. When did Minka go to collect Darija to stand in line for rations, and she was gone?

4. How many photographs did it take for Minka to write her story?

5. What does Sage bake to take to Josef after Leo tells her she should go see him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was a Donestre?

2. What does Sage do when she views her grandmother in the casket?

3. Why did Rubin steal a loaf of bread, and how was he punished?

4. Why didn't Minka mind living in the ghetto at first?

5. How did Minka and the other women of Auschwitz feel when they saw a bride arrive on a transport?

6. What does Leo tell people who come up to him and Sage after the service at the Synagogue?

7. What does Leo notice about the way Sage acts around her sisters?

8. What did Leo's mother dream?

9. What does Leo think his mother would and would not like about Sage?

10. How did Aleks happen to kill Ania's father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Franz helped Minka several times. Why do you think Franz helped Minka? Was the beating he gave her a change of heart or an attempt to help her?

Essay Topic 2

Sage referred to her grandmother as a survivor twice over. What was there in Minka's life that made her a survivor?

Essay Topic 3

Ania believed that Aleks was a scapegoat. In what ways was Aleks a scapegoat?

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