War and Remembrance Test | Final Test - Hard

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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. Peters reveals to Pug in Chapter 80 that the Army is interested in the Navy's system of processing _________.

2. What does Aaron use to try to bribe the commander of Theresienstadt to save Natalie from being transported?

3. As Aaron gets off the train at Auschwitz, he and the others are told to go where?

4. What is the name of Natalie's friend whose daughter often plays with Louis at Theresienstadt?

5. What do the SS officers threaten to do at Theresienstadt to keep Natalie in line?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pug's visit go with President Roosevelt when he returns to Washington after losing the Northampton?

2. What does Aster do during battle to show himself to be less than honorable?

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

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

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

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

7. What act of kindness strikes Natalie as she is being transported in a cattle car from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz?

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

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

10. What was Natalie's job while she was at Auschwitz?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Aaron and Natalie's train trip from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz is an allegorical journey showing how horrific the end was for the Jews sent to the death camps.

Essay Topic 2

What does the character of Byron, an American married to an Auschwitz survivor, represent in the novel? What does Louis represent as the son of these two?

Essay Topic 3

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

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