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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Aaron meets with SS officials during his time at Theresienstadt, what do they ask him to be the head of?
(a) Department of Education.
(b) Department of Defense.
(c) Department of Valuable Possessions.
(d) Department of Cultural Affairs.

2. Where do Berel and Mutterperl want to escape to?
(a) Prague.
(b) Paris.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Lisbon.

3. What is the name of the Army officer who admires Rhoda?
(a) Julius Wurtweiler.
(b) Sime Anderson.
(c) Breckingridge Long.
(d) Harrison Peters.

4. What is the name of the submarine Byron and Aster are on when Aster commands firing on the unarmed Japanese soldiers?
(a) Moray.
(b) Stingray.
(c) Shark.
(d) Barracuda.

5. Whom is Leslie Slote surprised to meet with while he is in Washington trying to get the American government to help with the plight of European Jews?
(a) Selma Ascher.
(b) Pug Henry.
(c) Sime Anderson.
(d) Pam Tudsbury.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the three things Aaron tells Natalie a Jew must never do?

2. Whom is Janice sleeping with after Warren's death?

3. What does Aaron tell the new director that the music department at Theresienstadt needs?

4. What Russian city does Pug tour to see the damage from the war?

5. What is the name of Leslie Slote's friend in the State Department?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Madeline reveal about their parents' marriage in the letter she writes to Byron?

2. What happens when Aaron and Natalie meet with Eichmann during their stay at Theresienstadt?

3. How does Louis make the German soldier guarding them on the train laugh?

4. How does Mutterperl die, leaving Berel alone to escape?

5. How does Aaron manage to get some better food on the train when he is being transported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt?

6. What ordeal does Natalie go through before she learns that Louis is not dead?

7. What does Pug discover when he asks other Americans in Iran about Rhoda and Peters?

8. Why does a doctor Aaron meets compare Nazi Germany to the Ku Klux Klan?

9. Why are the children at Madame Rosen's orphanage rounded up by the Nazis?

10. Why does Rhoda ask Pug for a divorce?

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