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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 Brigadier Smith hear while monitoring the radio in Chapter 47?

2. What does Jonas find out about Ariel in the hospital?

3. What does Anna find when she is taken to the morgue?

4. What does Stern have orders to do should the mission fail?

5. How does Jonas enter the camp in Chapter 41?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Anna kill Milkos in Chapter 35?

3. Describe the conversation between Anna and Ariel in Chapter 38.

4. Why does Sturm decide to harass Rachel in Chapter 26?

5. In Chapter 30 what reason does Anna give Mark for spying on the Nazis?

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

7. Who approaches Ariel when he is leaving Brandt's office to prepare for the attack and what does this person tell him?

8. What do Ariel and Jonas find when they escape in Chapter 46, and what is there next move?

9. In what way does Stern's plan change in Chapter 33, and why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does race and nationality play in "Black Cross"? What different nationalities are represented and by which characters? How is this important?

Essay Topic 2

How does the first person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would the novel be different if a different point of view were used?

Essay Topic 3

How would the story be different if Mark did not think his brother had died due to Smith's manipulation?

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