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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. Where were people who committed unnamed crimes sent?

2. In what year does Alicia hear that the Germans might be invading Poland?

3. Why do the Germans soon arrive in Alicia's town?

4. At the end of the section, what has happened to the Jurman family?

5. What saves Alicia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Were were Poles who disobeyed the Russians sent?

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

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

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

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

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

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 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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