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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. Where did Alicia and her family hide when the Nazis come to the ghetto in chapter 7?

2. At the camp, what are the prisoners fed?

3. Why was a villager cast out by his peers when he had an epileptic fit?

4. What were the Jews proud of?

5. What did Alicia's family have time to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, what event crushes the family?

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

4. How does Alicia show her selflessness in this section?

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

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

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

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

9. As a child where does Alicia grow up with her family and was it a nice place for Jewish people to live?

10. How does Alicia try to help herself, her mother, and others?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

- 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?

Essay Topic 2

Inaction caused many people to die in World War II. For instance, so many Poles did nothing while their neighbors died. What is worse, doing nothing and saving no one or acting to save someone and failing. Does any character in the book, besides Alicia, risk everything to help save other Jews?

Essay Topic 3

Many times throughout the book, Alicia exhibits her own selflessness.

- Give three examples of how Alicia puts others before herself.

- In each of these situations, how does Alicia but someone else's life before hers?

- How or why is she able to be so selfless?

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