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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. What does Jonas tell the women they must choose in Chapter 41?

2. What do Jonas and Anna do with Hannah?

3. What is Sturm's relationship to Schorner?

4. What is Stern surprised to learn about his father in Chapter 32?

5. What does Brandt tell Schorner he has received from four officers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happens when the Nazi soldiers break in the door of Anna's cottage.

2. Why does Anna kill Milkos in Chapter 35?

3. How do Mark, Stern, and Anna prepare for their mission in Chapter 36?

4. What do Jonas and Mark realize about the sky and what do they try and do about the problem it presents?

5. What happens when Stern notices five men standing between the Women's Block and E Block?

6. Describe what happens when the gas is deployed in Chapter 46 and how Sturm is killed.

7. In Chapter 37 what good news does Schorner tell Rachel?

8. What scene does Schorner arrive just in time to see in Chapter 26?

9. Why does Brandt ask to meet with Schorner in Chapter 31, and how does Schorner react?

10. How does Stern enter the camp in Chapter 40?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the characters of Anna Kaas and Rachel Jansen differ in their methods of survival?

Essay Topic 2

What characteristics of Jonas Stern betray the persona he strives for, and how do they perpetuate it? Provide examples.

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the main themes in this novel (manipulation, contradictions in crime, anti-Semitism, etc.) and detail its recurrences throughout the novel. What does it add to the novel? How does it affect the difference characters?

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