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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. Why did the family go without food for periods of time?

2. After the Nazis leave Alicia's village in Chapter 7, what has happened in the ghetto?

3. How does Alicia disguise herself as a worker?

4. What saves Alicia?

5. Why is Alicia caught by the Gestapo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Mrs Gold choose to help Alicia after she has already nursed her back to health?

4. What is the second way that Alicia proves she is selfless in this section?

5. How did life change once the Russians took over control of Poland?

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

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

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

9. Why does meeting Bella's family help Alicia make it through through this section of the novel?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

After the war, why does Alicia strive to gain education?

Does she think that it will better her life to be educated?

Is going to school allowing her to catch up on a life she missed out on?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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