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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. How is Alicia able to obtain food and shelter?

3. Why is Alicia accidentally taken to a concentration camp?

4. How is Bunio killed?

5. During her early years, what didn't Alicia experience?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did life change once the Russians took over control of Poland?

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

4. What action of some of the Nazi soldiers shows how cruel and heartless many of them were?

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

6. Were were Poles who disobeyed the Russians sent?

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

- 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?

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