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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. Who finds Alicia in this hiding place?

2. What was Bella's father's occupation?

3. How is she able to escape?

4. What happens when Moshe returns from school in Moscow?

5. What is the family's new winter hiding place called?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Were were Poles who disobeyed the Russians sent?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

- What does Israel seem to symbolize for all of the Jews that have survived the war?

- According to Alicia, what other countries become important destinations for Jews?

- How does Alicia finally make it into Israel?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the ghettos that Alicia was constantly forced to live in.

How did these ghettos work to separate the Jewish Poles from other Poles?

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