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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. How many Jewish men are forced to go to the police station?

2. While life continues on, what has rooted itself into the town?

3. Why does Alicia give up her radishes?

4. What had Mrs Gold given Alicia in a package?

5. Where were boys encouraged to go by Russians?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Alicia find herself as this section begins and why does she watch peasants as she tries to find her way back to her home town?

2. What upsets Zachary so much that he decides to join into the resistance?

3. When the Germans arrived in Poland, what has happened to the Russians and Poles?

4. How does Alicia finally find her way back to her hometown and what does she find when she arrives?

5. Where do Alicia and her siblings go everyday to try to make money?

6. How does Alicia find her way home after being caught in the transport car?

7. What action of some of the Nazi soldiers shows how cruel and heartless many of them were?

8. In a twist of fate, how does Alicia become reconnected to her mother?

9. What did many of Alicia's brothers and male friends grow up doing?

10. Who help to nurse Alicia back to health after she escapes being sent on a death march?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although the war ends, Alicia still feels like she is treated poorly because of her religion or her nationality.

Describe two occasions when Alicia is discriminated against because of her religion or her nationality.

How does she work to overcome these obstacles she is faced with?

Essay Topic 2

Alicia bonds deeply with Wujciu, a kind beekeeper who lives alone.

Although they are not blood related, how does Wujciu prove that he is a true family member?

Describe his actions throughout the winter that Alicia spends with him and the other families in his home.

Essay Topic 3

Alicia is lucky to find Poles and Ukrainians who agree to keep her background and whereabouts a secret.

- Name 3 groups of people that are able to help Alicia without endangering themselves.

- Then detail how exactly people were able to able to help Alicia and/or her mother.

- How do you think they might have risked their lives by helping Alicia?

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