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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. While visiting friends, what happens to Alicia?

2. Where aren't Jews allowed?

3. What happens to the Jews that go to a synagogue?

4. How is she able to escape?

5. What does Alicia often attempt to sell to make money?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

While men were on the war front or imprisoned, many women were forced to stay behind and take command of not only the domestic needs of their family but also the workforce.

- How did Polish and Polish Jewish women react when their husbands, brothers, and sons were taken away?

- In what ways did they step into what are typically male roles?

Essay Topic 3

Alicia is forced to spend much of her early adolescence and teenage years running from the Nazis and protecting her family. Had she not been forced to endure this kind of life, how would Alicia spent most of her time as a young Jewish girl and woman in Poland?

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