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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. Why is Alicia completely devastated at the end of Chapter 18?

2. What is Alicia struck by while she recovers?

3. Where does Alicia end up after leaving her home village?

4. When Alicia visits with Benjamin, what does she talk to him about?

5. How long are they kept in prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is mother killed?

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

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

4. While hanging out with her new friends, what happens to Alicia?

5. Where does Benjamin wish to go?

6. How does Alicia escape?

7. For her loyalty and bravery, how is Alicia rewarded?

8. After she finds Bella, what does Alicia decide to do with her life?

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

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

Detail the lives of the Jurman family prior to the start of the war?

- What was their family life like?

- What was their status in the community?

- How did the children interact with one another?

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

Inaction caused many people to die in World War II. For instance, so many Poles did nothing while their neighbors died. What is worse, doing nothing and saving no one or acting to save someone and failing. Does any character in the book, besides Alicia, risk everything to help save other Jews?

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