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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. How did Alicia and her mother survive the winter of 1943?

2. Who led the transports while Alicia is being trained to be a transporter?

3. Why is Alicia given thousands of rubles?

4. Who else was involved in the black market?

5. How was Benjamin injured?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Benjamin wish to go?

2. How have the Ukrainians made life for the Jews and Poles very difficult.

3. What is the very difficult practice that Alicia must endure to ensure food for not only her and her mother, but also the others living with the beekeeper?

4. In this section, what does it seem like many of the Poles want?

5. Why is Alicia so upset about this final transport?

6. What is different about Mrs. Taub's six year old son?

7. How does Alicia attempt to repay her "uncle?"

8. Although Alicia becomes sick and is forced to stay at the Hotel Straubinger, how does she feel?

9. How does Alicia work to help Mrs. Taub's son?

10. How does Alicia take the news that Milek has died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Milek and Benjamin as a support network for Alicia.

How do both of these people work to support Alicia at some point of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Alicia bonds deeply with Wujciu, a kind beekeeper who lives alone.

Although they are not blood related, how does Wujciu prove that he is a true family member?

Describe his actions throughout the winter that Alicia spends with him and the other families in his home.

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