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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. With whom is Anna's father very busy?
2. How does Anna feel about her new school?
3. With what is Anna's father constantly adsorbed?
4. What are the names of the two German children who come to play with Anna and Max?
5. How does Anna feel in Chapter 2 when she can't find her father?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Anna's mother say they will probably go, what do Anna and Max tell the other children about their father and where does their father arrive safely?
2. What do Max and Anna think about the anti-Semitism and what does their mother say about it?
3. What conversation does Anna hear between her mother and Omama and what does she resolve to do?
4. How is Anna's father feeling about his work and Germany?
5. What train does Anna and her family board and what happens in Germany that day? How do the Nazis use that event?
6. Who comes home from school with Anna and her sibling, and what do they do?
7. Why is her family famous?
8. What must Anna and Max do before they leave?
9. Where does Anna's family move from Zurich, who does she meet and what do she and Max do there?
10. What almost ruins the family's trip to Paris and what do they think might be the reason?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?
2. Analyze and discuss "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if The White Boy Shuffle is a successful novel.
3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for young teens versus adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" a successful novel? What about young teens? What about Jewish people? German people?
Essay Topic 2
Hitler was able to turn the German people against the Jews by creating and encouraging stereotypes and labels about the Jewish people.
1. Refute or defend the following statement: Stereotypes about people are generally true. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
2. How do you think stereotyping or generalization in schools can affect students? How might younger German children being taught stereotyping about the Jewish people can affect those children? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
3. The only statement that can be true about a population is if that population consist of only one person. Discuss this statement in view of the stereotyping of Jewish people.
Essay Topic 3
The German Parliament house, the Reichstag, is burned down. The Nazis use the event to claim that only they could stop the "revolutionaries."
1. Do you think there is a chance the Nazis themselves burned down the Reichstag? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
2. Do you think the Nazis statement about stopping the revolutionaries seem to correlate to the Federal government of America enacting laws to "stop terrorism"? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
3. Why do you think people are willing to give government more power when they are afraid? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
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