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

2. Who is trying to get Louis out of Theresienstadt?

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

4. At Auschwitz, Natalie was put to work in a factory disassembling what?

5. As Pug tours Russia, he is shocked to hear that General Yevlenko's mother died from___________________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the Red Cross representative who gave a glowing report of Theresienstadt later testify that he knew?

4. What does General Yevlenko tell Pug about what has happened in Leningrad?

5. How does Pug feel when he discovers the scrapbook Rhoda made of Warren's life?

6. How are Slote's request to help the Jews received by the State Department?

7. Why does Rhoda ask Pug for a divorce?

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

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

10. Why does Rhoda disagree with Pug about helping to get Natalie out of Europe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why are the characters of Rhoda and Pam the antithesis of each other? What seems to motivate each woman's relationship with Pug?

Essay Topic 2

How are both the flaws and the depths of relationships in the novel magnified during war?

Essay Topic 3

Was the reunion of Byron and Natalie satisfying to the reader? Why or why not? Why do you think Wouk depicted it this way?

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