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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. What is the name of the new ghetto?

2. How many brothers did Alicia have?

3. Because she cannot stay in Buczacz, what hiding place does she find?

4. How does Alicia disguise herself as a worker?

5. Why does Alicia give up her radishes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Were were Poles who disobeyed the Russians sent?

2. What became the fate of Moshe, Alicia's brother?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How is Zachary's death a way to warn Jews against mounting a resistance?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alicia is lucky to find Poles and Ukrainians who agree to keep her background and whereabouts a secret.

- Name 3 groups of people that are able to help Alicia without endangering themselves.

- Then detail how exactly people were able to able to help Alicia and/or her mother.

- How do you think they might have risked their lives by helping Alicia?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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