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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. After finding Bella and her son Danny, what does Alicia begin doing?

2. Why does Alicia decide to hide the money she is giving Wujciu?

3. Why were the Poles having sympathy for the Jews?

4. How was Benjamin injured?

5. While on their outing, why are they arrested by two Russian officers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why do Alicia and Peppa travel to Breslau?

6. How does Alicia escape?

7. To make Benjamin feel better, what does Alicia tell him?

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

9. What happens on what would be Alicia's final transport?

10. What two new relationships does Alicia develop with people?

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

- 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

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?

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