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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 village is Alicia able to find work in during the winter?

2. What were the Jews proud of?

3. What is the name of the new ghetto?

4. During her early years, what didn't Alicia experience?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Alicia's employer cease to allow Alicia and her mother to work and stay under her roof?

2. Why are Alicia and her family more prepared for the move to the ghetto?

3. What became the fate of Moshe, Alicia's brother?

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

5. How does living in the ghetto cause many of the Jewish people to act towards one another.

6. What happened to Hebrew when The Russians took over Poland?

7. As the winter comes, how do the Jews protect themselves from Nazi raids?

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

9. Why do so many people decide to stay away from the beekeeper?

10. How did Bella escape from the farmers that kidnapped her family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alicia and her mother outlive all of the men in their family. How do they figure out a way to overcome the loss of all of the Jurman males?

How does Alicia work to keep the memories of her father and her brothers alive?

Essay Topic 2

How does Alicia show her love for her family throughout the novel?

Although she has lost all of her immediate family, how does telling their story make her stronger?

Essay Topic 3

- Describe Alicia's relationship with her brothers.

- As they begin to be killed in the war, how does Alicia mourn them?

- How is she able move past the deaths of all of her brothers in order to survive?

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