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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. After Zach joins the resistance, what happens to him?

2. What must Jews now wear?

3. To provide for herself and her mother, what must Alicia do?

4. How does Alicia obtain food and winter clothes?

5. What becomes Moshe's fate at this location?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. What causes Alicia to be picked up in a transport car?

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

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

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

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

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

During World War II, the Russian and Germans had a very tense relationship.

Describe the international relations between the Russians and Germans at the beginning of the war.

What changes in Russian-Nazi relations, to cause Russia to join the allies and work to liberate Eastern Europe.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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